S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Birmingham City 1 Swansea City 0 | Att: 27,441 | The EFL Championship | St Andrew’s Stadium

[IsraJack]

A well deserved loss. You could smell their goal from the 60th minutes. It seemed like we were playing for a draw - a poor game management by Sheehan. One more lesson from this game is that the midfield needs to change. Melker or Yalcouye must be one of the three opening midfielders if we want more offensive minded players.

 

[Swanjaxs]

A well deserved loss. You could smell their goal from the 60th minutes. It seemed like we were playing for a draw - a poor game management by Sheehan. One more lesson from this game is that the midfield needs to change. Melker or Yalcouye must be one of the three opening midfielders.

Fulton is back in training on Monday too.

 

[Smurph]

Fulton is back in training on Monday too.

Panic over

 

[Longlostjack]

Missed the end because the battery on my phone was low and my ticket to get in to watch Werder Bremen was on my phone. Swans definitely Bundesliga standard. Werder were crap. Just re-charged phone and saw Crapdiff result. Every cloud …..

 

[Swansea93]

Bad news is Stamenic's leg was strapped up and he was limping when he got off the players bus at the stadium not long ago.

 

[Michu78]

What are posters aspirations this season - for me I would prefer to cement ourselves in a top ten place, work to continue with our excellent summer recruitment programme and move on from there. Having said that, should we find ourselves challenging for a P/Off place come next season, go for it.

Promotion, What's the point of playing sport if you want to settle for mid table. Look where Forest have come from to where the are now, I hate defeatest attitudes, play sport to win.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Promotion, What's the point of playing sport if you want to settle for mid table. Look where Forest have come from to where the are now, I hate defeatest attitudes, play sport to win.

Also helps to have a billionaire owner willing to pump his own money in. #levels

 

[Pentyrchjack]

Vip's disallowed goal looked onside

 

[Swanjaxs]

Vip's disallowed goal looked onside

Not even close, brilliant finish, I'm not going to suggest the baying crowd behind the linesman had any influence...

#shithispants

 

[Copamundial]

A well deserved loss. You could smell their goal from the 60th minutes. It seemed like we were playing for a draw - a poor game management by Sheehan. One more lesson from this game is that the midfield needs to change. Melker or Yalcouye must be one of the three opening midfielders if we want more offensive minded players.

The only thing that you could smell in that second half was fatigue, totally understandable after nearly 100 minutes on a heavy pitch Wednesday night.

 

[cmajack]

The only thing that you could smell in that second half was fatigue, totally understandable after nearly 100 minutes on a heavy pitch Wednesday night.

So why weren't fresh legs brought on sooner then?

 

[Copamundial]

So why weren't fresh legs brought on sooner then?

The spine of the team played Wednesday and again today, tweaking a few positions wouldn’t have made much difference in my opinion.

 

[Malaga]

The spine of the team played Wednesday and again today, tweaking a few positions wouldn’t have made much difference in my opinion.

But a competent linesman might have

 

[cmajack]

The spine of the team played Wednesday and again today, tweaking a few positions wouldn’t have made much difference in my opinion.

Vigoroux, Cabango and Stamenic didn't play on Wednesday and Vipotnik only played less than 20 minutes, that's the spine of the team. We were beaten today by a poor decision by a linesman and yet another poor half of football. Substitutes should have been introduced sooner today to hopefully give the team more energy. The problem we have at the moment is we are not creating anywhere near enough chances, and we are not putting together enough 90 minute performances. We were poor against Middlesbrough, we had average home performances against Watford and Hull and we were poor second half again today.

 

[Jackareme]

Sheehan was oddly passive today with his substitutions. Inoussa was fantastic first half - but was visibly less effective as the second half went on - should have been hooked 10 minutes earlier. Franco and Galbraith were similarly treading water, but saw the whole thing out.
When the Brum LB went off and was replaced by a CB - that should have been an instant decision to get Benson on for Ronald - and get at him.
I really believe that Sheehan is a good coach tactically (generally) but today he could have helped his team - and he didn't.