The Swans head to Nottingham Forest tomorrow to end their away campaign for the season against one of the sides still with ambitions of automatic promotion to the Premier League.
Former Swans boss Steve Cooper has lifted Forest from the relegation zone to the brink of the Premier League in just 35 games and he will know that if they can secure three straight wins to end their campaign then automatic promotion will be theirs.
If that fails though they always have the fall back of the play offs to come and a third successive crack at those will be a good consolation for Cooper should they not make the top two in the division.
IF it is the play-offs then Cooper will lead his side in as undoubted favourites and that could add to the pressure that this time of the season can throw out and I certainly wouldn’t rule out any an unexpected result tomorrow as that pressure can do strange things to even the most in form of teams.
Forest won 4-1 in SA1 back in December but the Swans have certainly advanced since that time and will prove to be a tougher test for Forest tomorrow – something that Russell Martin acknowledged at his press conference yesterday before finalising his plans for the trip to the East Midlands.
โI thought we were really good in the first game against them,” said Martin. “We should have scored early and we didnโt; I think weโll have learned a lot from that.
โSo Iโm really looking forward to it. Itโs a game for the guys to be really excited about.
โThe squad want to pick up as many points as possible and try to squeeze into the top half which weโre really close to.
โFrom where we were at the start of the season to where we are now has been a really big change and hopefully you can see that against Forest on Saturday.
โSteve Cooper has done a brilliant job since heโs gone in there to galvanise them and get them moving in the right direction. Theyโve built momentum now.
โTheyโve got some outstanding players at this level who possess real athleticism. So, itโs going to be tough, theyโve been on an incredible run and possess a real threat in certain areas and weโll have to be aware of that.”
You lot are a disgrace the MIGHTY FOREST will make you pay tomorrow for the losing that lead against the lowly cherry’s you dumplings