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Reply | Swansea City : Ronald is a cheat !
at 22:49 26 Nov 2024
Franco use to go down theatrically quite often when he first got here but has wised up to the Championship but he is now taking some beatings in terms of physical contact, Ronald being a winger already knows he is going to get the full back giving him a dig and yes over exaggerates the contact at times but a good full back will test the water to see how a winger reacts to a strong challenge from behind early on knowing that most refs don't want to dish out the yellow cards that early.
Dyer roasted Patrice Evra in his fist game against him but in the second after few stiff challenges by Evra Dyer didn't want to know, Evra coached to test how Dyer would react by cheating giving fouls away risking the yellow card, playing the ref.
Ronald won the free kick that lead to the first goal and had the assist that lead to the second and yet is accused of having a quiet game, this is what your attacking players do, they can look awful trying things to deceive defenders when they don't come off but they are in the team for the times they do come off.
Cheat away as much as you want Ronald but just don't make it too obvious.
One point about making fouls too obvious was the case on Sunday where Ronald had got in front of the defenders who fell down but the freekick went against Ronald because the referee's decision must have been coloured by the fact that Ronald must be a cheat and not the fact that Ronald got the better of the defender [Post edited 26 Nov 23:08]
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Reply | Man City do a Swansea...
at 22:17 26 Nov 2024
Listening to the pundits at the end of the game they are saying exactly what some of the posters on here have said about the Swans, bad high lines, bad individual errors and inviting pressure, lack of concentration. At the end of the day football throws up these type of games time after time just want to see us not getting in these situations, games that points should be won but lost. |
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Reply | Swansea City & Jason Levien : The crucial omissions
at 11:22 26 Nov 2024
Would be interesting to know if there a time frame for us to get into the Premier League to pay the £10 million up to £40 million or is the requirement to pay the 10 million anytime in the future regardless how far ahead that may be. |
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Reply | Derby County v Swansea City : Match day thread UPDATED ⚽️
at 10:19 26 Nov 2024
It is not about going into defensive mode it is about bypassing the opposition's press, cutting out the forced mistakes while also ensuring we don't get caught on break as often as we do and did against Leeds.
Leeds fans were full of praise for our style of play as opposed to Burnley who parked the bus according to them and yet Burnley won their game against them we didn't, twice we got ahead in the game and once we managed to level the game because they were unable to defend against us properly but we played straight into their hands conceding four also not defending properly and not reacting to the dangers they possessed. Don't think Leeds fans would have been so gracious if they had drawn or lost the game.
Derby away from home,they will come at us and we can catch them on the break or by good play and passing but we have to defend properly when needed. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Those errors continue in a right old thriller
at 23:33 25 Nov 2024
How many of us see four attackers racing into the box with only two defenders trying to stop the tide, credit has to be given to Darling, Cabango and Vigouroux for many games this season but the tracking back by the others when a high line is employed is not good enough especially if we are going to give the ball away so cheaply in the centre of the park the most congested part of the pitch with our full backs needing to be high up the pitch for us to show any attacking quality or intent. Picked off again when the opposition needs to.
Yes progress seems to be made but Williams still has yet to work out how to get the best from his players for 90 or more minutes over a consistent number games.
All about getting the balance right, has William's got the players available to do that given the injuries we have to our attacking players. [Post edited 26 Nov 6:56]
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Reply | Derby County v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 23:05 25 Nov 2024
Will be interesting to see the starting line up, Williams hasn't started with Allen in the midweek games after a he starts on the weekend bringing him on later. Will he swap any others Vipotnik or Bianchini starting? |
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Reply | Fulton
at 19:43 25 Nov 2024
Is it a case of poor concentration levels in some of these youngsters, they have balls coming at them from different angles and it is as if they never seen one coming at them like that or think they know what they are going to do next but take their eyes off the ball. Key is similar when the high ball is played diagonally over head he just doesn't make a descion how to deal with them and gets caught in no man's land luckily for us he has good pace to recover and Cabango defends the front post well on the righthand side. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Leeds United : Match day thread UPDATED
at 19:30 25 Nov 2024
The tactics used in attack got us in front twice as needed but our defence of that lead is what has to be questioned for a team that hadn't conceded more than one goal then concedes four it is all about playing the right tactics as the game progresses not one size fits all.
Leeds are not unbeatable they have lost 2 and draw 5 games very similar to a number of teams near the top. We just got to look at the real reasons we are losing points we have been in a position to gain. |
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Reply | Cooper sacked
at 18:53 25 Nov 2024
My recall is most came directly after Cooper left, were they in the pipeline before Cooper left as for Darling and Wood I did mention that I thought they came in Russell second season. [Post edited 25 Nov 19:14]
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Reply | Swansea City : Those errors continue in a right old thriller
at 12:25 25 Nov 2024
We have seen the likes of Ntcham, Celina and Paterson good Adanced midfielders trying to force things from deep come unstuck, all for a player putting a foot on the ball but often the best ball is the first one you see.
Similarly amazed that Vigouroux doesn't use Key after he tracks back the winger and then peels off into space as the ball goes through to Vigouroux leaving Key free with plenty of room and time to play either a quick ball down the line or carry the ball forward |
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Reply | Cooper sacked
at 12:11 25 Nov 2024
Think most didn't expected a positive result, we all hoped for the best, Cooper actually picked a more attacking team instead of having both Bidewell and Manning on the left he chose Lowe who hadn't been the preferred selection up to that point in the league team. We got caught at the back and Fulton's sending off ended any real chance of recovering the game. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Leeds United : Match day thread UPDATED
at 12:01 25 Nov 2024
A loss like a number of home games which game management has loss us points, I cited the Gillingham game in which we maybe have come unstuck, you cannot solely rely on attacking intend to win games, as said before a fine line trying to find the balance between attack and defence and knowing when to do either correctly. [Post edited 25 Nov 12:03]
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Reply | Swansea City : Those errors continue in a right old thriller
at 11:15 25 Nov 2024
Will give Grimes a bit of credit at the moment as his play in general seems a lot sharper and quicker, he has pushed further forward and made some good covering interception but when he does push forward then the other midfielders have to do the covering work.
As for the errors that tends to happen when options become limited or the player on the ball is far too confident lulled into a false sense of security although being given hospital passes doesn't help. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Then errors continue in a right old thriller
at 10:38 25 Nov 2024
Think Ronald is causing problems for teams Leeds as many teams have done are doubling up on him sometimes you need to snuff out problems out early in games as we didn't with James, Tymon needed to ensure his threat was limited by being more cautious going forward onlyvwhen cover was in place from the midfield and centrebacks a balance that needs to be looked at, Key had similar problems on the other side which was stifled for most of the game until Key push forward more into the central midfield where he seems very effective in an attacking sense, fine line balancing the need for attack or defence. |
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