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The swans are on a run of four defeats, no goals and seemingly have lost all confidence in themselves and how to deliver goals and points. Millwall are on a healthy run of form.
Nailed on home win then eh ?
EFL Championship Saturday 10th April 2021 The New Den Kick off 12.30pm or maybe it’s 1pm
Match Officials ROBERT JONES Darren Cann and Simon Beck Fourth Official : Craig Hicks
LIVE ON SKY SPORTS
The swans are entering record breaking territory for all the wrong reasons. Here we go ...
Longest losing streak (League): 9 matches, 26 January 1991 to 19 March 1991 Longest non-scoring run (League): 6 matches, 6 February 1996 to 24 February 1996
Who would have thought it, it’s strange how we all take things for granted when they are going well, and even stranger the people who were being hailed as the new dawn in Swansea City’s recent history are two months later being shouted down - and are very persona non grata.
Millwall on the other hand have won their last three games.
So what’s going on ? Well, it’s like this. When you don’t score goals you draw games, when you don’t score goals and let them in you lose games. When you aren’t good enough to create chances to score goals and the other team does you lose games. If you are both shite, you draw games, but as we have seen you also lose games. This isn’t a conundrum, it’s what happens when your luck runs out, your heads are down and you feel sorry for yourself. Then you look at your bank balance, shrug your shoulders and play on your Xbox or PlayStation. It’s a great life being a loser.
A look back in anger
That’s a decent side.
Let’s go back to 2007 and Millwall v Swansea at the New Den. I chose this hame as I thought Kevin Austin was superb playing in this game. As we know he died of pancreatic cancer in 2018. Solid as a rock. Very dodgy penalty awarded against the swans, but still got the point.
Report - Roberto Martinez’s Swans extended their unbeaten run to eight games thanks to an influential performance from Paul Anderson. The on-loan Liverpool winger created the opening goal when his shot was parried into the path of Jason Scotland and the striker steered home. Millwall, under the guidance of new boss Jackett, responded through Zak Whitbread, and they went ahead 20 minutes from time thanks to Alan Dunne’s penalty. But Anderson had the final word, combining with Scotland to make it 2-2 on 78 minutes. The goal is credited to Darryl Duffy.
This game is LIVE on SKY and the club stronghold of Wales goes to Swansea City. Just in case the 5-0 filth down the road are getting out of hand
Millwall: Bartosz Bialkowski, Murray Wallace, Jake Cooper, Jed Wallace, Scott Malone, Alex Pearce (captain), Maikel Kieftenbeld, Mason Bennett, Dan McNamara, Billy Mitchell, George Evans.
Substitutes: Frank Fielding, Mahlon Romeo, Shaun Williams, Shane Ferguson, Connor Mahoney, Ryan Woods, Kanneth Zohore, Tom Bradshaw, Jon Dadi Bodvarsson.
Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Kyle Naughton, Ryan Bennett, Marc Guehi, Ryan Manning; Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Conor Hourihane; Wayne Routledge, Andre Ayew, Jamal Lowe.
Substitutes: Ben Hamer, Korey Smith, Morgan Whittaker, Yan Dhanda, Joel Latibeaudiere, Connor Roberts, Jake Bidwell, Ollie Cooper. Ben Cabango.
Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:06 - Apr 10 by Nortbankboy
Lots of fans with egg on their faces todey.
Hope Cooper switches between the two formation to keep everyone fresh for the play offs
Shame he didn't do it a lot earlier, everyone could see what was needed apart from our stubborn manager. Just enjoy the performance and the result, hopefully with more to come, though I wouldn't be too confident on that unfortunately.
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Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:19 - Apr 10 with 1209 views
Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 17:01 - Apr 10 by AndyCole
He is our best option up front at the moment, as seen yet again today.
What Lowe has done is repaid the faith the management team has had in him. They stuck by him, which is exactly what forwards need. Those that said he was shot and needed to be benched, take note, it's not that complicated.
As Cooper said post-match : "we believe in him and trust him 100%".
And it worked, yet again.
That’s all well and good. But the games inbetween has cost us, never any slight on Lowe, been poorly managed and needed taking out of firing line.
What I will say though is the way Ayew run over to Cooper spoke volumes, players are playing for him I’m glad he set us out the way he did today, as we have the players to play expansive attacking football, always have done
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Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:25 - Apr 10 with 1188 views
Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:10 - Apr 10 by Nortbankboy
The truth hurts
No it doesn't mate as I'm not a happy clapper.
I'm true to my beliefs just like most loyal fans, I wear my heart on my sleeve just like most loyal fans, what i won't do is take my team not giving 100 % and the manager not managing correctly.
If you want to tag onto a wum to make yourself look good then its your choice but you will be in the minority fella.
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Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:35 - Apr 10 with 1171 views
Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:25 - Apr 10 by Fireboy2
No it doesn't mate as I'm not a happy clapper.
I'm true to my beliefs just like most loyal fans, I wear my heart on my sleeve just like most loyal fans, what i won't do is take my team not giving 100 % and the manager not managing correctly.
If you want to tag onto a wum to make yourself look good then its your choice but you will be in the minority fella.
Perhaps I am a happy clapper. But I like to get behind my club and team. We could make the play offs for the second season. I consider that a good season. We might even go up who knows?
Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:19 - Apr 10 by 34dfgdf54
That’s all well and good. But the games inbetween has cost us, never any slight on Lowe, been poorly managed and needed taking out of firing line.
What I will say though is the way Ayew run over to Cooper spoke volumes, players are playing for him I’m glad he set us out the way he did today, as we have the players to play expansive attacking football, always have done
Fair play for a reasoned response. But totally disagree re resting Lowe. He thrives on being part of the gang, getting stuck in, being involved, being trusted. Running his heart out. Especially massive respect given the huge ask on him to play as much of a striker as he possibly could. Massive respect to the lad.
Today he blossomed again. Revitalised in his favoured wide role, cutting in. And smashing two outstanding finishes with the confidence of a striker.. T Henry in the making
Agreed. Kudos to that big gesture to the management team. They're definitely all in it together.
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Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:41 - Apr 10 with 1154 views
For me a decent second half performance but several things went our way today :-
1. Ayew’s goal came at the perfect time after a very average first half. 2. They hit the post with Woodman beaten. 3. Freddie made a top quality save to keep it 2-0.
That said deserved win, 3 high quality goals & should set us up for the final 6 games - probably need 3 more wins to make the play offs.
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Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread THE FINAL SAY on 19:45 - Apr 10 with 1049 views
Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread THE FINAL SAY on 19:26 - Apr 10 by Fireboy2
I did mention about a week ago that I had a dream that we won the play off final 2-1.
Don't know who it was against but we were winning 2 nil and the oppo scored with seconds to go.
I would love it if we did that against barceford, I would love to see frank the w@nks face.
Post of the day, fair play
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Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread THE FINAL SAY on 19:44 - Apr 10 by Thornburyswan
For me a decent second half performance but several things went our way today :-
1. Ayew’s goal came at the perfect time after a very average first half. 2. They hit the post with Woodman beaten. 3. Freddie made a top quality save to keep it 2-0.
That said deserved win, 3 high quality goals & should set us up for the final 6 games - probably need 3 more wins to make the play offs.
On their header that hit the post, to me it looked like Woodman pulled out of saving it, thinking it was going wide. Seemed to dive well enough but pulled his hand away.
Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread THE FINAL SAY on 20:15 - Apr 10 by Chief
On their header that hit the post, to me it looked like Woodman pulled out of saving it, thinking it was going wide. Seemed to dive well enough but pulled his hand away.
Could be or realised he couldn’t reach it, it was bouncing back to him but one of our defenders got there first.
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Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread THE FINAL SAY on 20:31 - Apr 10 with 995 views
Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread AS IT HAPPENS on 18:36 - Apr 10 by AndyCole
Fair play for a reasoned response. But totally disagree re resting Lowe. He thrives on being part of the gang, getting stuck in, being involved, being trusted. Running his heart out. Especially massive respect given the huge ask on him to play as much of a striker as he possibly could. Massive respect to the lad.
Today he blossomed again. Revitalised in his favoured wide role, cutting in. And smashing two outstanding finishes with the confidence of a striker.. T Henry in the making
Agreed. Kudos to that big gesture to the management team. They're definitely all in it together.
I agree, a striker (which he has been made to be) needs a goal when their confidence is low. The longer than drought goes on the worse it gets, dropping him only prolongs that. We had no real viable option other than Lowe to continue the rest of the season so seems illogical to exacerbate what was already becoming a tricky mental hurdle for our best option.
Very pleased for the guy. His two finishes were absolutely clinical too. The drawback touch before his second shows the ability he has so I hope that’s not brought into question again. He’s taken some horrible abuse.
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Millwall v Swansea City Matchday Thread THE FINAL SAY on 22:18 - Apr 10 by 34dfgdf54
I wouldn’t. What have we got to lose? Keep going at teams especially ones down bottom.
Agree. They’ve got the wingback formation drilled into them. It’s always easy enough to take Routledge off, bring whoever is on the bench between Roberts and Naughton on and revert to the 352 if we’re winning and need to tighten up.
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