Could Swansea City already have the missing link?

It’s been a strange old season to date.   The Swans are occupying a relatively high position in the league table but there is still levels of criticism and concern over the playing style that has got there.

When you take a look at the Swans side and stats to date then you see a position where neither Joel Piroe and Michael Obafemi have not yet really fired and you realise that if we could get them firing then the league table could look very different and very soon.

You do start to think that if the Swans could start firing on the striker front then this division presents a real opportunity for us and a Premier League return so the question has to be asked as to why the strikers are not producing at the level they were last season where goals were flowing for both.

The answer to that could well lie in the creativity that is potentially lacking at the moment within the team.  Goals are flowing but when you look back at the games and the match highlights we are not exactly blessed in the creativity stakes.

So what can we do about that with the January window just around the corner?  The answer strangely could be in SA1 already in Liam Walsh?  Signed before the appointment of Russell Martin, Walsh has made just one league start since joining the club from Bristol City on a free transfer.  He spent time last season on loan at Hull City where again just one league start was the return but now back in Swansea and just about ready to go could Walsh be the answer to our creativity issues.

Walsh has been an absentee for most of this season after suffering an Achilles injury in pre-season with Matt Gill saying at the time “It is so unfortunate because Walshy was in a brilliant place and had come back in really good shape.”

We understand that Walsh is now nearing full fitness and that his return from injury is going to plan. It’s understood that he has returned to light running on the treadmill with an aim to be back on the grass in the first half of December.

Factor in a return for him and some first team starts for Jamie Paterson – another former Brstol City player – and you could well see the service that the likes of Piroe and Obafemi can feed off.

For all the good work the Swans midfield has done this season with Fulton, Grimes and Cooper, Walsh could bring a new dimension to the midfield when you consider his role is generally an attacking one from the centre of park as you’ll see below.

Things have certainly not gone to plan at Swansea so far for Liam but he has always been highly rated and there is little doubt that he is a talent who is currently buzzing for what we are and what we could achieve ahead of us.

The prospect of him linking up with Paterson if they can both discover their best form would be enough to give most defenders at this level something to think about particularly after playing together in the past.

Walsh’s talent is summed up in the goal in the clip before a run from midfield that would not be out of place if it was Lionel Messi with the ball.  And if we can get this form in the midfield here in Swansea then we really could have found our missing link and that is a prospect that should excite most of us.