S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea City 2 Oxford United 0 | 6/12/25 | Att: 17,318 | The EFL Championship | The Swansea.com Stadium

[Londonlisa2001]

Highlight for me from today was the incident prior to Tymon's booking when a few of our players got stuck in. I haven't seen that type of passion for a while.

Great win, the Jacks are going up

Burgess had a go at Harris as well a minute or so later.

 

[LaJollaJack]

Highlight for me from today was the incident prior to Tymon's booking when a few of our players got stuck in. I haven't seen that type of passion for a while.

Great win, the Jacks are going up

And Eom’s uber fast tracking back for a sublime sliding tackle into touch - VM was proper buzzing, fists a-pumping

 

[ARQS]

Definitely some positive signs aside from the massive 3 points

 

[K23]

My only concern with leaving Galbraith at RB is that today he would often come way way out of position to be involved and get on the ball in central midfield, leaving a big gap over where he's nominally playing. Oxford didn't have much out wide to take advantage of that, but I'd be concerned about a team with half-decent wide players doing it.

Then again, if the alternative is Key back there leaving huge gaps anyway...

That's a good point. When we played Pompey at home last season, their left winger Josh Murphy (twin brother of Newcastle's Jacob Murphy) caused us huge problems and I think he scored their first goal iirc. I hope this time we make plans to deal with his threat.

 

[Longlostjack]

I was impressed by the energy levels today. Apart from dropping a bit too deep in the last ten minutes, I thought our fitness looked very good in appalling weather conditions. Good pressing throughout the match too, and clever use of subs by Vitor.
Really looking forward to coming over on Tuesday now to see if we can keep it up. Bringing a French mate from Spain with me for his first ever visit to the UK and the mighty Swans!

Les frites chez Rossi’s sont superbes et les poissons sont cuits à la perfection!

 

[Smurph]

Burgess had a go at Harris as well a minute or so later.

Yes! I forgot about that, literally next touch of the ball and he kicked him up in the air.

 

[Cooperman]

Got to start with the same starting eleven against Portsmouth, Shirley?

I’d like to but it will never happen. Not the same eleven for two games in four days.

 

[Smurph]

And Eom’s uber fast tracking back for a sublime sliding tackle into touch - VM was proper buzzing, fists a-pumping

Loved every minute of today, the boys did well

 

[Smurph]

I’d like to but it will never happen. Not the same eleven for two games in four days.

I have a sneaky suspicion you'll be correct. I'd be tempted to stick with the same stating line up for momentum.

 

[Pegojack]

Les frites chez Rossi’s sont superbes et les poissons sont cuits à la perfection!

Unfortunately I don't think we'll have time for a pre match pint or rissole, the timings are a bit tight. Landing at 4.00pm Cardiff, then a hire car to get us there via Baglan to pick up my season ticket.
EDIT: sorry to bother the thread with my travel arrangements, but thinking of coming up A48 from airport, then getting on M4 at Pyle. Are there still all those roadworks and delays at Margam on the motorway? In which case I'll stay on A48 through Port Talbot. C'mon Darran, what's the gen?

 

[magicdaps10]

Not a classic albeit a wonderful Tymon goal but 3 points and a clean sheet much needed.

I think we need to realise that the squad is totally unbalanced and I believe Matos is very aware of this. He started with a solid team and we need to be letting Yalcouye and Benson return to their clubs in Jan with a RB and no 10 high on the list.
All players put a shift in but I was quite annoyed with Inoussa who seems lazy in his defensive work.
You could see confidence was low but that result, performance and 3 points will help massively.

Galbraith again, he is absolute class.

 

[Cooperman]

I have a sneaky suspicion you'll be correct. I'd be tempted to stick with the same stating line up for momentum.

A lot will depend on how Matos viewed things today. My untrained eye gave a

For me it’s a case of getting points in the board. It’s Stoke away after Portsmouth which I’m prepared to write off if it means three points midweek. So, the bottom line - if nobody is in the red zone then start the same eleven.

 

[Swanjaxs]

How good would Matos be with his trusted backroom staff, though?

Truth is, that's never going to happen, unfortunately.

Plan B anyone...

 

[Cadoxton Jack]

We were very nervous at the start of the game , looked like we lost 5 on the bounce but after about 20 mins we started to be much more aggressive and for those 25 mins to half time it was the best I’ve seen us all season.
We weren’t as good in the 2nd half but the win was most important today to start to regain confidence.
Galbraith had freedom to move into midfield a lot and it helped but he won’t have that freedom against better teams. It’s a waste of his talent to play him at right back which we need to sort in the January window.
Need to back this up against Portsmouth with another strong performance.

 

[magicdaps10]

We must stick with a solid team as best as we can going forward, I think one of our issues this season is the continuing chopping of changing with the midfield.
We are over stocked with similar style midfielders and too many wingers. I think we looked a lot better on our right side with Galbraith there but it just highlighted how poor Key has been. We can't look to continue with Galbraith at RB as he offers much more in midfield. I don't think we need to have anything special at RB, we just need someone who is solid defensively.

I must also add, I liked the idea of playing a fluid attack when Vipotnik went off, I don't think it worked with the players we have but the idea that Matos is looking at switching wingers to striker and being able to interchange between the 3 keeps defenders guessing and in their toes.