S25/26 | The Official Match Day Thread | Swansea City 1 Millwall 1 | Att: 14,942 (810 Away) | 27/09 | The EFL Championship | The Swansea.com Stadium

[IsraJack]

Cullen clearly isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and has his limitations but if we’re going to a front 2 I’d think he’d be far better as the second striker linking up play as seen in the short period against Forest.

No managers get subs right every time but unfortunately I think that’s 3 league games on the trot where they’ve been puzzling at best.

I totally agree with your point about Cullen. All I meant is that for now, Idah is looking like VIP at the beginning of last season.

 

[Ringwood]

We are so easy to play against.. double up on Galbraith, bully Yalcouye and attack our fullbacks also chuck in good crosses.

For me Key is a huge liability.. decent enough going forward but his defending decision making and first touch sadly is not this level

Burgess is monster in the air but his passing is slow and often wayward.

Inoussa creates moments of magic but does he do enough over 90 mins?

At least we didn’t lose, that has to be progress against this lot. How Cooper managed to be not sent off for his constant fouling is a mystery on the crap ref will ever know.

 

[Magic_Michu]

We had 2 clear cut penalties and a questionable goal ruled out.

Add last week’s disallowed Vipotnik goal… time for VAR in the championship?

 

[monmouth]

Sheehan wears his heart on his sleeve. What makes you think he’d pretend to be angry with the ref just to deflect attention? Would be completely out of character.

He should have been angry and I think he was, but he also should be angry with tactics, subs and selection. Relying on refs to get things right is not a sound strategy. Changing the way youu play to try and score more goals, is.

 

[ARQS]

It’s nothing like Martin’s brand of football. Or Williams’. But there were too many times when we passed the ball backwards and allowed Millwall to regroup. Particularly Ronald.

Which is exactly what also happened under those two managers.

What's happened to the all action matches of the end of last season?

We have been dreadful to watch this season

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

Not saying that VIP is out penalty taker or that we would have scored if it was given, but officials have denied him a perfectly good goal last week and a clear cut penalty this week

Last week I can forgive the assistant. Striker running in, defender standing still and first shirt he sees is Vipotnik. Today just looked stone wall at the time - based on comments from those that have seen replays it seems it was.

As you say we may have missed the pen but we’d have had another 10-15 mins against 10 men as well.

 

[monmouth]

We had 2 clear cut penalties and a questionable goal ruled out.

Add last week’s disallowed Vipotnik goal… time for VAR in the championship?

VAR would have backed up the ref on the disallowed goal (it was too close to being in Benda’s hands), but we’d have had a penalty. VAR is still shit though, and I’d rather not.

 

[CurtessECarr]

We have scored just 7 goals in 7 games.
Incredibly there are currently as of now 8 teams who have scored less than us and 2 other teams on just 7 goals.

 

[monmouth]

VAR would have backed up the ref on the disallowed goal (it was too close to being in Benda’s hands), but we’d have had a penalty. VAR is still shit though, and I’d rather not.

The second ‘penalty’? The push on Stamenic? That’s never being given by 90% of refs.

 

[monmouth]

Which is exactly what also happened under those two managers.

What's happened to the all action matches of the end of last season?

We have been dreadful to watch this season

People keep saying ‘it’s nothing like’ but at its core it has absolutely been, go wide, go back, go sideways, go wide other side, go back, pass fifteen times, go back, centre back, go wide or hoof. Create f*ck all. It’s not a million miles away is it?

 

[ARQS]

People keep saying ‘it’s nothing like’ but at its core it has absolutely been, go wide, go back, go sideways, go wide other side, go back, pass fifteen times, go back, centre back, go wide or hoof. Create f*ck all. It’s not a million miles away is it?

I'd like someone to explain exactly why it's different. Because it isn't

 

[Blackpooljack]

The second ‘penalty’? The push on Stamenic? That’s never being given by 90% of refs.

Agree Stamemic just jumped forward and threw himself to the ground as soon as he felt a touch on his back..never a pen.

 

[Swansea93]

Dreadful game again imo, we’re just so predictable, get down the wings try overlap passing but 9/10 doesn’t happen so ball gets taken back, Key out of position massive gap down his side.

Vipotnik a huge positive though in a shite performance, no point saying we should have had this and that given by the ref but we need to create our own opportunities not relying on decisions from the officials.

 

[IsraJack]

People keep saying ‘it’s nothing like’ but at its core it has absolutely been, go wide, go back, go sideways, go wide other side, go back, pass fifteen times, go back, centre back, go wide or hoof. Create f*ck all. It’s not a million miles away is it?

Actually the statistics shows that both teams had the same percentage of backwards passing (around 17%). But when you have 545 passes overall (they had 306) it looks like M&W football.

 

[Blackpooljack]

Too many times ( and Key is the main culprit) do we get it down the wings as far as the box then turn round and put it back into our own half.