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S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Coventry 1 Swansea 0 | Att: 30,139 | Boxing Day | The EFL Championship | The CBS Arena

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I like Galbraith as a player. I appreciate his technical ability, and it's nice to have an actual footballer around the team among all the 'role players' with their very narrow set of abilities. He can play in multiple positions because of it and is doing a great job at RB for us right now.

I do feel people go overboard with the praise though; like a starving man finding some chicken nuggets and thinking they're the greatest culinary creation.

In addition to Tom Carrol, a good comp is Luke Cundle. I liked Cundle, just like I like Galbraith, but talk of EG waltzing into the EPL seems a little wacky.

Anyway, another frustrating day today, similar vibes to Stoke away. Gave a good account of ourselves, but lacking quality where it matters.

How the f*ck Cullen missed that chance I don't know. How so many of our players make stupid decisions in the final 3rd is beyond me. I know they're generally not very good, but coaches can drill into them what to do in certain situations to take the decision part out to a large degree.
 
Galbraith was terrible today? He is a very good right back who basically created both of our XG goals today - the pass to Cullen that was squared to Vip was fabulous - and the chance he created for Cullen even more perfect.
All from right back.
There are many problems in this team and squad - but Galbraith is absolutely not one of them!
By all accounts he’s only scored two goals and one assist in 23 outings, and isn't very productive mun.
 
If we had 4 other players in the team with Galbraith’s level of footballing ability we’d be a very good side. Not saying he’s flawless or that he’s the next De Bruyne but is consistently our standout player in terms of composure, playing in tight areas, reading the game and playing killer passes.
The corners at the end though, ouch….. that kind of stuff will be the difference between keeping him for another season and not.
 
I watched the game today and in the first half we bossed Coventry. The difference between the two sides was belief - Coventry knew if they just carried on they’d ride out the storm and get the chance which of course they did and converted it. We need to change a couple of things and Ronald is one of them. He’s not at it and neither is Franco. If we are to move on there can be no sentimental weaknesses over player selection- we really must ditch Ronald and give Inoussa an extended run. Ditto Yalcouye for Franco and Widdell for Cullen. It’s a pity he took Vipotnik off as he would have buried the chance that fell to Cullen late on.
All in all we should have at least had a point and that’s much better than we could have expected in November.
The referee was another shithouse who was quick to card Stamenic but let a lot of their fouls go. A win at Oxford should kickstart our away form.
 

Oxford United v Swansea City

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