Swansea City away FA Cup replay match thread

[View from the Dolman]

15 minutes ago, sticks 1969 said:

Hopefully the club will strike a deal with WBA and have a good price on tickets for the 4th round 

No need to strike a deal - prices are now purely a matter for the home team. 

[sticks 1969]

Never knew that 

hopefully city will try and fill the ground 

[Red Army 75]

Really don’t like that Swansea manager . 

[YGBjammy]

Bell's involvement in both goals was class. 

Wonder how he's feeling waking up this morning!

[glynriley]

4 minutes ago, YGBjammy said:

Bell's involvement in both goals was class. 

Wonder how he's feeling waking up this morning!

 

[IAmNick]

What a great first goal. 3 of our players hunting 2 of theirs in a tough position on the halfway line, win the ball and it's in the net 5 seconds later. Brilliant.

[Northern Red]

40 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Really don’t like that Swansea manager . 

I notice he mentioned box entries in his post match interview.

[Davefevs]

3 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Yes it was, does anyone know why that doesn't seem to go down as an assist? I thought that only happened if there was an opponent's touch between the pass and the goal.

I got this reply from (see below)

 @Hamdon Mart

2 hours ago, westonred said:

For those that havent seen it yet

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/64313267

Much better (More City biased) highlights than the first lot put up…and Hadwin / Owers comms too.

2 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

That Bell goal reminded me of Michael Owen, such great pace and composure 

It was wasn’t it.  Good shout.

[Port Said Red]

3 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I got this reply from (see below)

 @Hamdon Mart

Much better (More City biased) highlights than the first lot put up…and Hadwin / Owers comms too.

It was wasn’t it.  Good shout.

Thanks Dave, I did wonder whether it was because the ball was played and received within the defensive half of the field, but sounds like it was just missed.

[Sir Geoff]

Was at the game last night so haven't read all these pages. Despite a brilliant dogged team display I thought Alex Scott was very disappointing. The game seemed to pass him by. Joe Williams was a massive upgrade on the night and was instrumental in us winning.

[Jerseybean]

Gallery from last night: https://www.swanseacity.com/news/gallery-swansea-city-v-bristol-city-0

 

NP post match: https://youtu.be/npLEGjit3oo

 

[FNQ]

5 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

Was at the game last night so haven't read all these pages. Despite a brilliant dogged team display I thought Alex Scott was very disappointing. The game seemed to pass him by. Joe Williams was a massive upgrade on the night and was instrumental in us winning.

Hopefully young Alex has not had his head turned with all of the media transfer talk, tentative bids??

 BTW. Fair play to you and the others who made the effort to get to the game.. bet it was a fantastic experience. And great to hear of a brilliant dogged team display.

COYR’s

[Jerseybean]

Just watched the highlights what a great winner the ball from King and the direct pace of Bell  were a thing of beauty, unlike our defending from the throw that led to their goal. 

[Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan]

3 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

That Bell goal reminded me of Michael Owen, such great pace and composure 

Haha, just watched it and immediately thought of Owens goal against Argentina in the World Cup 1998. 

[ciderwithtommy]

Love the fact we won that when clearly there’s a bit of needle between the players - it’s what it’s all about! I went to home game but sadly not last night, however in the game at AG I noticed quite a lot of verbals and a few niggly arguments, winning against teams you don’t like is a great learning curve for our youngsters. 

[Mihai]

11 hours ago, LondonRobin said:

Have a day off

What do you mean by that ? Is a slang from England ?

I will take it like  a "take it easy, man!" and not as criticism.

I did a lot of grammar errors was not reading my text before post it but I can not take days off, even if I am not active on the forum lately.

I am that stupid... begin afraid of relation but still look at the difference between us and top 6 haha. Probably this is the curse of being a City fan.

Just now, Mihai said:

What do you mean by that ? Is a slang from England ?

I will take it like  as a "take it easy, man!" and not as criticism.

I did a lot of grammar errors was not reading my text before post it but I can not take days off, even if I am not active on the forum lately.

I am that stupid... begin afraid of relegation but still look at the difference between us and top 6 haha. Probably this is the curse of being a City fan.

 

[RedLionLad]

52 minutes ago, Jerseybean said:

Gallery from last night: https://www.swanseacity.com/news/gallery-swansea-city-v-bristol-city-0

 

NP post match: https://youtu.be/npLEGjit3oo

 

Photos taken by a Swansea fan

[rednotblue]

What was Max doing for the Swansea goal?

[Super]

2 minutes ago, rednotblue said:

What was Max doing for the Swansea goal?

It was an appalling goal to concede all round. Luckily it didn't cost us.

[Davefevs]

9 minutes ago, rednotblue said:

What was Max doing for the Swansea goal?

Trying to bail out a defence that had switched off at a throw-in after subs made!  Trying to narrow the angle to stop Grimes shooting.

[The Swan and Cemetery]

11 hours ago, stortfordred said:

Two against ‘muff in the 90s says you’re wrong me ol’ mucker

Indeed, was going deep on the sarcasm. Loved the complex chant of “we’ve got MB, we’ve got MB, we’ve got M, we’ve got M, we’ve got MB” - took a while to learn, but rewarding once you’d conquered it. 

[maxjak]

4 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

That Bell goal reminded me of Michael Owen, such great pace and composure 

That is exactly which came to mind when i watched it!!?..............Slightly different weather conditions and circumstances, Ha!!  ....but Yes, you are spot on.

[maxjak]

18 minutes ago, Super said:

It was an appalling goal to concede all round. Luckily it didn't cost us.

He went walkabout.........filling in at right wing back?

[Numero Uno]

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

Trying to bail out a defence that had switched off at a throw-in after subs made!  Trying to narrow the angle to stop Grimes shooting.

Once the keeper ventures in front of his near post in that situation it's curtains. Technical point not blame game..........

[Super]

What a great pic this is.

[KegCity]

5 hours ago, Percy Pig said:

I mean, let's not pretend that a) other than the result that that was a good watch and b) the formation had anything to do with it, it was a display of guts and resilience, similar to the games against Millwall and Cov. (I'd argue we showed far more enjoyable football in those games, too).

That we won doesn't make 433 the golden goose you want it to be. If anything today highlights a number of the weaknesses to that formation. Too easy to dominate as there is too much space between our press. 

 

That’s your opinion, I personally think there’s a noticeable difference in how we play and it’s what I’d prefer to watch. If you don’t then fair enough, I don’t think it’s a “golden goose” or whatever I just think we play with a bit more purpose and at a faster pace in 4-3-3. I’m not a fan of the 3-5-2 as we seem to struggle to work the ball up the pitch and that’s been my biggest criticism of Pearson. It’s not perfect (nothing is in football) I just prefer it to the formation we’ve stuck with through 3+ years of turgid football.

As someone that was just about Pearson Out after WBA I’m pleased with the response from the side and hope this continues. Sorry I’m trying to give the boys some credit!

[Davefevs]

2 minutes ago, KegCity said:

I just prefer it to the formation we’ve stuck with through 3+ years of turgid football.

Do you really think it’s been turgid?  What about WSM last season, some of early season this season, etc?  If you do, fair enough, but you’ll surprise me if you do!

Nor have we stuck with a formation either?  I still remember the moaners early last season when we were playing a back 4.

[KegCity]

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

Do you really think it’s been turgid?  What about WSM last season, some of early season this season, etc?  If you do, fair enough, but you’ll surprise me if you do!

Nor have we stuck with a formation either?  I still remember the moaners early last season when we were playing a back 4.

Of course we’ve had some good runs mixed in but by and large we’ve not had great results and 3-5-2 appears to have been the predominant formation, although stats may prove me wrong. We’ve struggled to climb up the table for several seasons, and of course there are plenty of contributing factors for that, but 3-5-2 has been one (of many) consistent factors during this run. Turgid may be a tad strong as we did score a lot of goals (whilst also conceding them by the bucket load) with WSM but ultimately we haven’t exactly been drowning in wins in recent years whilst mainly using wingbacks. I’m not a fan of the formation at any level unless you have elite wingbacks for the standard, so maybe personal biases are getting in the way.

Its definitely not down to just the formation, it’s just nice to see a fresh idea introduced that appears to have helped the team play at a higher tempo.

[Davefevs]

King now credited with the assist.  Thanks @Hamdon Mart 

[Davefevs]

Great angle!