S22/23 The Official Swansea City v Burnley FC Championship Match Thread

[Swanjaxs]

Thought we went toe to toe with a very good side today, Joe was the best player on the pitch, Piroe didn't look interested and Harry Darling isn't very good at defending.
Over-all very promising

 

[J_B]

Excellent first half performance but we ran out of steam in the second half when Joe Allen tired. Wouldn't have taken Fulton off as well though as we lost both our midfield dogs.

Piroe never wins a 50/50 and rarely even challenges for them. When he's not scoring he's a passenger.

I hope he keeps Benda for the league games even though that was a real howler.

 

[CurtessECarr]

I don't mind losing that as there was something about us again.
Please Russ don't reverse this style again.
Good effort lads.

 

[FelindreJack]

Shout out for Manning today. Especially in the first half.

Give him whatever contract he wants!

 

[Neath_Jack]

See, you can put up with losing like that, when they put so much effort into it.

I thought a draw would have been a fair result.

Joey was immense, Piroe not so much...

 

[Neath_Jack]

Give him whatever contract he wants!

One of the first names on the team sheet every week.

 

[Risc]

One of the first names on the team sheet every week.

According to a person who knows him personally, he’s been offered lower terms on what he’s on now, he’s not going to accept that.

Such a shame.

 

[sainthelens]

Beaten by a better team, dont mind that as Piroe aside we put a shift in. Joey was immense, Piroe a fckn shambles and Benda is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma. Hate losing but enjoyed the game. Looking forward to Sunday...hopefully have a right go at it.

 

[JonTheJack]

Understand the subs we made squad wise, and it was always going to be how we changed up our approach to go with it.

Burnley were very organised and Ntcham showed he can’t get into a game in that position.

Following that it was down to Martin to change it because we struggled to pass it out of our own half. We had to start looking to just aim for channel balls with willing runners like Cullen and Cooper but Martin is blind to when things just aren’t working and that second half just passed us by disappointingly.

First half was a cracking game and agree with comments further up that if we keep this up we will be in the playoffs.

 

[Neath_Jack]

According to a person who knows him personally, he’s been offered lower terms on what he’s on now, he’s not going to accept that.

Such a shame.

Someone said that about Lati to me at the game today.

Terrible if that's correct about Manning.

 

[cmajack]

See, you can put up with losing like that, when they put so much effort into it.

I thought a draw would have been a fair result.

Joey was immense, Piroe not so much...

I must have been watching a different game over the stadium then, it was a dreadful second half performance from us with their goalkeeper not having a single shot to save. If some of the posters on here are happy with that , then you really are setting the bar low. Our bench is as weak as a kitten , and the subs when they came on were totally ineffective.

 

[PSumbler]

Swansea head coach Russell Martin:

"I'm really proud of the players. I thought we were very good in large parts. But I'm also very frustrated and disappointed that we lose to two such poor goals.

"The difference between the two teams over the course of the season is they make very few mistakes leading to goals and we make too many. That's what you got with youth and I guess that's the difference with financial power with the players they have.

"But I thought there was very little between the two teams. First 15 minutes we probably paid them a little bit too much respect, but after that for half an hour I thought we were outstanding. We caused them all sorts of problems.

"Steve [Benda] has been brilliant for us. I am sure he will be disappointed with the goals but the lead-up to the free-kick we give away is just ridiculous - we miss a five-yard pass and then it's a free-kick. The second one, Steve will feel he could have done better but he'll bounce back, no problem."

Burnley manager Vincent Kompany:

"We started the first half extremely well, recovered a lot of balls and created moments, chances, in transition.

"Then for 20-25 minutes first half they were on top of us. They were better. They changed it as Swansea do. If you get a hold of them, they change it around and move positions.

"We were not able to get the same pressure on them and if Swansea has time on the ball, they are going to hurt you. Second half I thought was an even game. We got a press on in the second half and we had the better chances.

"We burnt up a lot of energy in the wrong way in the first half. But in the second half they (Burnley) just went again. That's the strength of this team - when you think they are about to bend and break, they go again."

 

[Neath_Jack]

I must have been watching a different game over the stadium then, it was a dreadful second half performance from us with their goalkeeper not having a single shot to save. If some of the posters on here are happy with that , then you really are setting the bar low. Our bench is as weak as a kitten , and the subs when they came on were totally ineffective.

All about opinions my friend.

Take into account the quality of the team we were playing against.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

Only watched second half. Positives were us looking forward for passes instead of back or sideways. Carried on from the other night which was good to see.

Negatives were we looked a little short on actually creating anything very much. A lack of quality where it mattered and seemed a bit shapeless when Allen went off.

I’d rather watch us like this though than the negative stuff we were serving up. Much prefer 4 at the back. Could do with more pace up front though and someone who can beat a player out wide (the one time Congreve did so it created our best second half chance).

 

[LeonWasTheDog's]

Shout out for Manning today. Especially in the first half.

Hampered by no option in front of him. Same on the right too - we’re playing more narrow and I’m not convinced it suits us. It made it easy for Burnley to keep us pegged back in our own half in the 2nd half.

Although credit to Burnley - they stepped up the pressing and looked very composed in the 2nd. Combine that with ruthless finishing and you can see why they’re up the top. Just a shame we had the normal brainfarts gifting them 2 early gosls.