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Swansea Away - 15:00 Sat 21st October

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Our first competitive match in Europe since Roma knocked us out of the Conference League.

 

Enzo to rotate the Leicester juggernaut. 

 

0-2.

 

Winks to open his account.

 

Nestagaard (yeah, I'm sticking with it until you all follow suit) to dictate the game.

 

 

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Koke

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Out run since the Hull defeat on 2 September:

 

Southampton 1-4 Leicester 

Norwich 0-2 Leicester 

Leicester 1-0 Bristol City 

Blackburn 1-4 Leicester 

Leicester 3-0 Preston 

Leicester 2-0 Stoke

 

15 goals scored. 2 goals conceded.

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5 minutes ago, Koke said:

Out run since the Hull defeat on 2 September:

 

Southampton 1-4 Leicester 

Norwich 0-2 Leicester 

Leicester 1-0 Bristol City 

Blackburn 1-4 Leicester 

Leicester 3-0 Preston 

Leicester 2-0 Stoke

 

15 goals scored. 2 goals conceded.

and to think the 2 goals we let in came from our own mistakes

 

on the swansea game, im reserve judgement on the team until after the international break, 

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They’re in good form after looking absolutely awful against Cardiff. Shows how fickle football is, Swansea hated Duff and he was accused as being the wrong fit for Swansea. Four good wins later and they think he’s great.

 

Should lose a challenge but another where the extra quality should show in the end.
 

We’ve had a great start  but this block of games feels significant has some potentially tough games including this one. Burnley won 14 of 15 at one stage last season, we’ve got to be matching that.

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Don't know much about Swansea this season.  Haven't seen them in action yet.

 

They are in a clump of four mid-table teams sat on 15 points.

 

However, their last five form of one draw then four wins means we should pay attention to what they are doing different recently.  This also means they were on two points (!) before the last five matches.

 

In Enzo I trust. 

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On 07/10/2023 at 21:06, TrentFox said:

Dennis Rofe. The Vetch. Two stonkers. Top bin. Scenes. Enough said. 

Blimey - that takes me back - I'd say it was near the start of the 79 / 80 season - I was too young to go. 

 

I take it you were there. 

 

He scored an absolute corker past the, to be England goalkeeper, Chris Woods in a win against QPR around Christmas of the same season. 

 

It's still one of my favourite seasons. 

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The international break probably hurts Swansea the most, given their form. We won all 6 league games and could also feel our rhythm stunted but nothing changes for Maresca, he has a plan.

 

They've some very good players. Humphreys was one I really wanted us to go for this summer, but we went for Doyle instead. Patino will try and dictate play and with the pace of Lowe and Jerry Yates we'll need to cut out thr over playing and careless mistakes.

 

Yates reminds me of Vardy so much.

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Whilst we have a few away there is still a strong group we can set the team up around:

 

Ricardo

Coady

Vestergaard

Justin

 

Winks

KDH

Akgun

 

Mavididi

Vardy

 

According to Google Vesty and Akgun didn’t get called up so just a winger and gk to come in when back.

 

this then allows Faes, Ndidi, Iheanacho and Fatawu to come in for Sunderland game (along with possibly choudhury, Souttar, Casadei etc) 

 

keeps the rotation going and gives international players a break before being thrown back in. 

 

 

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                                     Hermansen.

 

      Coady.                  Lestergaard.              Justin.

 

                    Ricardo.                        Winks.

 

                   Casadei                          K D H

 

   Fatawu.                         Vardy.                    Mavididi

 

Subs:

Stolarczyk

Soutter. Faes.

Choudhury

Ndidi.

Akgun. Albrighton

Iheanacho. Daka.

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On 09/10/2023 at 13:35, FoxinNotts said:

                                     Hermansen.

 

      Coady.                  Lestergaard.              Justin.

 

                    Ricardo.                        Winks.

 

                   Casadei                          K D H

 

   Fatawu.                         Vardy.                    Mavididi

 

Subs:

Stolarczyk

Soutter. Faes.

Choudhury

Ndidi.

Akgun. Albrighton

Iheanacho. Daka.

Why would you stop ndidi unless he is injured?  I’d go as strong as possible. We need to keep momentum going especially after the international break. 

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23 minutes ago, Supergray22 said:

Why would you stop ndidi unless he is injured?  I’d go as strong as possible. We need to keep momentum going especially after the international break. 

Ndidi is away at the AFCON in the new year, maybe we need to look at other options ?

 

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Swansea City vs Leicester City Pre-Match

 

Swansea are definitely a team of two halves to their Championship start. They've gone from looking like a total disaster and an inevitable Manager sacking to 4 wins from 5, playing good football and looking upwardly mobile.

 

 

^ Their recent 3-1 away win. They played some really nice stuff in this one and were quite attacking and expansive.

 

 

 

^ One of the less impressive games earlier in the season where they slumped to a 2-0 defeat against Cardiff.

 

So what's changed, and why are Swansea suddenly good? A few things:

  • Russel Martin was their manager last season, where they were a possession heavy side. After he left they appointed Michael Duff who has a different style of play.
  • Duff started the season with a 3142, with wingbacks and two men up top, including Jerry Yates who was linked with us in the summer.
  • However, this wasn't working well, and they moved to a 4231 shape with a really technical double pivot of Charlie Patino and Matt Grimes, who is a really underrated player in this division.
  • The most interesting thing to me is they sacrificed their possession style at the start of the season to go to more of a toe-to-toe approach. And they've got results in doing so.
  • In general, they push their fullbacks up high to create the width as per a typical 4231.
  • However, against Norwich (a game that they won), they sat back a little more. However, they did still have more possession, more shots and more shots on goal.

 

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^ Swansea started the season off with a 3142 system with wingbacks and two men up top. It didn't work out too well.

 

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^ But since shifting to a double pivot and 4231 shape, they've really turned the corner and looked like a good team.

 

Given they are at home, I expect they will have a go, especially in the opening period, and I can see there being gaps behind their fullbacks if our high press does its thing. However, more than any other team this season so far, including even Southampton and Norwich, I think Swansea have one of the more technical midfields in the division. Will this mean they dare to challenge us to a passing battle in midfield? They might have to because it's the primary way of playing. At the same time, if we win the midfield battle, they could be in trouble as the one thing I'd say they lack in midfield is a bit of bite. I can see a situation where we dominate the ball on their own turf, and they are caught chasing shadows as we have not only a man advantage in the middle of the park, but they lack someone to get it back off of us.

 

With our squad being so much unfairly better than anyone else's in this division, it's hard not to see another win on the road, but given their recent form, this is more of a challenge than it looked 6 weeks ago.

 

 

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