Well back in the Mumbles First half - no shape, forwards unable to hold-up a ball or pass. Rhino and Swift held it together. 2nd half - shape, controlled the game, but few chances until Yiadom's master blaster. Who puts corned beef in a pasty???
Positives : End of the 5 at the back nonsense, certainly for a while anyway Swift and Rino dominated the midfield in the second half Moore and Morrison were solid together Yiadom Gomes making the obvious sub of bringing off Boye when he was close to a red card Barrett looks a lot more mature than he did the last couple of years in his brief cameo We didn’t lose Negatives : Such a bad goal to concede. Blackett, Moore and Morrison all at fault, so early on as well Movement. Too static, Swift one of the only ones to pass and move, Joao moved about but couldn’t control it Puscas has a really poor first touch. His lay-off to Swift about…
Rafael - 7 - Seemed composed but actually didnt have much to do. He rushed off his line well. I liked that. Yiadom - 8 - Genuinely think he is the best RB in the league. He lost his man once in the second half and that was down to the opponents skill. Still cant believe he scored! Hes usually so bad at shooting. MOTM obviously Morrison - 7 - Solid. Which is a good thing. Hes fairly reliable. Moore - 7 - I guess. He was pretty good. Oddly he was much, much better in the back 4 than the back 3. Blackett - 5 - Harsh but he was poor before he came off. Obita - 6 - He is not ready to start imo. Richards was poor when he came on but…
Well that was a weird game. Pretty poor one to watch as well. We were pretty pants for about 60-65 minutes of it but kept going and got our reward after giving a poor goal away so early. I was expecting more from Swansea, aside from the goal, they didn't really look that dangerous (as like us). Draw was arguably fair based on that. Gomes got our starting 11 and tactics wrong. The injury to Blackett was a blessing and allowed us to play the 4-2-3-1 which we played in our first 2 games. Decent point although a pretty average performance in all honesty. My ratings: Rafael - 6 - didn't have much to do. Had no chance with their goal.…
Back from iFollow.... Well, that was a game of two halves. Hopefully, even Gomes can see now that Boye really isn't very good, and neither is Joao. The former thinks he's all flicks and tricks and he's not. The latter is just an ambling lump with a very poor first touch, can't hold the ball up or pick a pass (except the one-two and slide through for Yiadom for the goal - except he was trying to thread it to Puscas.) Barrett impressed even though he looks like he's carrying a bit of timber and was gasping after about five minutes. If he learns when he needs to keep it simple (without impacting his desire for the flash,) he'll be a…
Very frustrating to watch, the equaliser papered over what was a fairly poor game for the vast majority. First half was littered with individual errors, the second was much more cohesive but too often we'd just pass it backwards. There's still far too little movement off the ball, everyone is so static. Swansea looked very organised, and will be disappointed not to have held out - still, the team showed some good spirit to keep going until the very end, and got their reward. Rafael 7 - made a couple of good saves second half, couldn't do much about their goal. Still don't 100% understand the constant goal kicks to a player who is…
Just a thought but maybe we are a bit better than our position, and eventually it will start to show. Today we drew away at Swansea who are one point off top, (and would have gone top with a win) and we drew away at West Brom who ARE top We’ve played 9 games against: 2 of the top 2 3 of the top 6 4 of the top 7 5 of the top 11 6 of the top 12 7 of the top 15 only two of our opponents would be considered ”lowly” ATM, Huddersfield and Boro and we won one of those, were unlucky to lose the other
I said after the Wycombe and Cardiff games 5 ATB won't work against sides who don't let us dominate the midfield. Our "wing backs" aren't good enough (compared to Swansea, Leeds, Fulham 2016/2017). Unfortunately we don't have any decent wide players to play 4 ATB either. So basically we'll struggle against any team who stop Swift and Ejaria playing. We're so easy to play against.
This Championship game took place 2471 days ago in the 2019/2020 season.