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

[monmouth]

Just enjoy the three points.

He could only do that if he was a Swansea fan.

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[PenlanJack]

Ronald and Eom hugged the byline and would come infield on a long ball attempting to get scraps.. it's something different, whether it'll work is up to the gods.. if we revert to 5 at the back or lopsided formation again.. it's important that if we're willing to squeeze up to halfway with our defensive line.. other teams who are better than Oxford will simply go long ball creating untold destruction..and other teams who are better than Oxford will exploit Cabango on the right and Burgess on the left side.. teams have already exploited it when we're 5 at the back, they use their pace to get on the outside of them both, but luckily Oxford were beyond hopeless

 

[Smurph]

He could only do that if he was a Swansea fan.

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true

Hard to find many negatives in todays win, especially after what we've been used to over the last few weeks.

 

[monmouth]

Ronald and Eom hugged the byline and would come infield on a long ball attempting to get scraps.. it's something different, whether it'll work is up to the gods.. if we revert to 5 at the back or lopsided formation again.. it's important that if we're willing to squeeze up to halfway with our defensive line.. other teams who are better than Oxford will simply go long ball creating untold destruction..and other teams who are better than Oxford will exploit Cabango on the right and Burgess on the left side.. teams have already exploited it when we're 5 at the back, they use their pace to get on the outside of them both, but luckily Oxford were beyond hopeless

We only need one more team to be worse than us!

 

[jackharris]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997379420068221373

 

[jackharris]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997403170067435894

 

[WentToSchoolWith]

According to the BBC report the Xg was: Swansea 0.63. Oxford 1.16.

I don't understand that at all.

Just on this...

It makes sense if you're canny with the ins and outs of xG, but this is an example where it isn't a very good metric for a game. Under Sheehan, I was complaining week in, week out for about two months regarding our woeful attacking input and low xG, so really, I should be over Matos for the same.

The difference is the threat we carried outside of shots. One of the main faults of xG is that it only prescribes itself as a metric of a shot - for example, a perfectly whipped cross that needs a touch from a gnat's wing to go in, still only accounts for 0.0 as there is no shot to measure.

Today was a performance where we carried a lot of threat and a decent amount of excitement, even if they didn't necessarily lead themselves to clear shots on goal with a high conversion rate. Tymon's goal will obviously have an xG of 0.01, maybe 0.02, Stamenic also did well with his header to get it through a crowd of players.

Additionally, Oxford did have those two Lankshear chances that were very strong, the back post header in particular was a sitter. But no-one would argue we didn't deserve to win today.

Echoing a few other comments on here, I think the clear feature of our game for Matos to work on is our chance creation from open play. It's as low as it can physically be at the moment, Sheehan completely destroyed us a threat, but it's early days and I've liked what I've seen so far