Five Things We Learned from Swansea City's 1-0 Defeat at Exeter City

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Five Things We Learned from Swansea City's 1-0 Defeat at Exeter City

The Swans’ pre-season preparations took a minor hit today with a 1-0 defeat to Exeter City at St James Park, a match that also served as a testimonial for Gre

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[K23]

I was at the game today and whilst I agree generally with that appraisal, I think there are a couple of considerations which may lend a bit of context.

Our attack. We started without a #9 (Cullen is not a #9) but with both Vipotnik and Wales on the bench so there was no focal point to our attack which makes it difficult to create anything when there's nobody in the box to at the very least make a nuisance of themselves and challenge for the ball. I thought it might have made more sense to give Wales and Vip a half each as we will surely have someone in there for league games and we need to practice with that format but we had no-one for about 75 minutes then both of them for the last 5.

Our defence. We started with one CB, which was CB. Fulton is not a CB so the back 4 didn't function as a back 4 that consisted of 4 defenders all with a defender's instincts and experience might otherwise have done.

 

[Pacemaker]

I did like Kyrell Wilsons cameo performance he looked up for the game and was unlucky with a couple of his shots, looks to have the makings of a good player. Seen him play well for U21 last year but he looks like he could be part of the first team squad if needed.

 

[The.Alpine.Shrew]

I agree Wilson looked up for the chance, he got kicked everywhere but carried on winning the ball back and injected some pace. He is however quite raw.

Would like him to get a loan to league 1, see how he gets on.

Ronald on the other hand was pretty poor for 70 mins, then we started playing balls over the top quickly and he looked far better.

The other annoying thing was Galbraith moving to rb when we were messing about with the ball at the back, with Key further forward, then Ronald further again, it looked overloaded and there was 1 less option in the middle of the park.

 

[Swans Jack]

I did like Kyrell Wilsons cameo performance he looked up for the game and was unlucky with a couple of his shots, looks to have the makings of a good player. Seen him play well for U21 last year but he looks like he could be part of the first team squad if needed.

That's good to hear. Without adding unnecessary pressure, does he look like a player that can be a starter or needs time out on loan? I have seen some good highlights of him but unable to see how he fits into the team next season.

 

[Dillwyn the Dog]

We created plenty of chances and had three goals disallowed. We conceded one with a cm playing CB so I’m not that worried. Under williams we weren’t creating many chances at all so chill everyone.

 

[bakajack]

Its tricky to judge with highlights (because they are just that, highlights) but we created plenty of chances and Congreve looked busy and creative. Some good interplay with Widell and his goal didn't look offside

In fact truth be told I didn't see anything in the highlights for any of the goals that justified them being chalked off.

Burgess's header was apparently for a foul but I didn't see anything like that
Vipotnik's wonder volley was apparently for offside, the angle didn't help but he seemed to have been a late runner coming around the back

 

[Dr. Winston]

From what I can tell we played some decent stuff and created enough chances/scored enough goals to win comfortably if not for a linesman determined that Exeter wouldn't lose a testimonial.