S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea 1 Derby 2 | Att: 14,251 | 25/11/25 | The EFL Championship | The Swansea.com Stadium

[T8AD365]

Were they gutless or were they outplayed by another physical team (like Ipswich) who got away with some foul play because they knew how to play the referee? Sone of our players (eg Ronald) felt like they played the ball back too often rather than taking on their opponent, but it didn’t feel at all like they all did?

They did start off playing with more energy than usual and seemed like they wanted to impress Matos but it faded towards the end of the first half and just became like every other game we see down there, slow and ponderous.

We wait for the opposition to get back into shape, nobody bothers to move to create space or a passing option for the player on the ball and we just look generally clueless.

73% possession and we had 4 shots on target (1 fewer than Derby managed with their 27% possession)

 

[3swan]

A wide player with no end product on both wings is a poor watch.

True but only commenting I his effort which was above others.
Hrs.not up to this standard apart from the very few occasions

 

[Londonlisa2001]

London Lisa the new Eom

I can’t use my left foot either.

Mind you, I can’t really use my right.

 

[Cooperman]

Trans World Airlines

There We Are Then

That’s me done. Commiserations to all YJB’s, not a great start to the Matos reign. I’m off to bed.

 

[Ringwood]

I can’t use my left foot either.

Mind you, I can’t really use my right.

So you're Eom and Ronald in one ..

 

[Londonlisa2001]

So you're Eom and Ronald in one ..

lol.

 

[T8AD365]

If you're going to set up like Liverpool, you need two new centre backs who can play a bit, because I can see straight away that Cabango and Burgess will cost us goals playing this way.. because we've seen it before, if you get Cabango in a foot race it's curtains and Bereton Diaz setting traps and targeting his footballing vulnerability at this level will result in the goals conceded column.. this Swansea way rhetoric needs centre backs who can simply pass a football, and we haven't got them.. so just in advance, before other teams exploit them over and over.. you've got to adapt to something that makes them comfortable in a system, tonight, they were a car crash

If we set up like this season's Liverpool, we'll definitely end up going down!

 

[Cooperman]

Blimey, we’re about to break 40 pages. Never a good sign

 

[Birchgrovejack]

At some point we have to start trusting the players we develop. It would be nice to bring them into a winning team, but could Congreve be worse than Ronald or Benson? Or Parker worse than Key. Hard to see how.

I was wondering this today. Surely the full backs in the u21s can't be much worse than key?

 

[Resolvenjack]

We look like being this years freefall team.

 

[Cooperman]

We look like being this years freefall team.

We are in freefall. It’s happening now.

 

[monmouth]

We look like being this years freefall team.

Charlo may give us some competition.

 

[monmouth]

We are in freefall. It’s happening now.

Any excuse for this

 

[Cooperman]

Fergie lost his first match as Man Utd manager 2-0.

That was also in November.

At this point I’ve run out of positive omens.

 

[monmouth]

Fergie lost his first match as Man Utd manager 2-0.

That was also in November.

At this point I’ve run out of positive omens.

We didn’t lose 2-0…