Season 20/21: AFC Bournemouth v Swansea City Match Thread

[Itchysphincter]

Would take a point here also, but we should be confident, they haven’t been anything special of late and struggle to score goals like us.

Four-all then.

 

[westside]

muff are playing fa cup quartes on saturday

 

[ABSwan]

muff are playing fa cup quartes on saturday

I presume they'll take Promotion as the higher priority.

 

[swansnews]

TALKING TACTICS | BOURNEMOUTH V SWANSEA CITY

Source: Swansea Official Site

Football stats experts WhoScored.com take a closer look at the form of Joel Latibeaudiere, and assess the role he can play in Swansea City's Championship clash with Bournemouth on Tuesday night (7.45pm).

Another three points, another clean sheet and the Swansea train keeps chugging along. Now unbeaten in four after Saturday's 1-0 win at Luton, the Swans are keeping on Watford's coattails.

The Hornets ended the weekend in second owing to Adam Masina's late free kick in the 2-1 win at Cardiff, but Swansea are level on points with them, and have a game in hand.

And a repeat of that narrow victory at Kenilworth Road would be welcome when Steve Cooper's side make the trip south to Bournemouth in midweek.

The Cherries were previously one of the favourites for promotion, but a run of four wins in 14 has seen them drop out of the play-offs ahead of the upcoming gameweek. Three wins in eight at the Vitality Stadium underlines how challenging a run this has been for Bournemouth.

However, they still boast the sixth-best home record in the division at the time of writing. Yet, considering Swansea's excellent away showings in 2020-21, the south Wales side will not be fearful of any test they face on their travels.

Joel Latibeaudiere may have had to be patient when it comes to getting regular game time following his arrival from Manchester City in October, but the youngster has been called upon of late due to injury. Indeed, Latibeaudiere started the 1-0 win over Luton and put in a solid shift alongside Ryan Bennett and Kyle Naughton.

The 21-year-old will be made to work hard to keep the Bournemouth attack at bay in midweek, with the Cherries having found the back of the net 52 times this season, that the fourth best return. Yet, Latibeaudiere has already played a key role in keeping Bournemouth quiet this season.

Bournemouth have failed to score in just seven of their 36 league matches, one of which came in the reverse fixture where the Swans were held to a 0-0 draw. That stalemate marked Latibeaudiere's full debut for Swansea and he did not disappoint. The defender earned a WhoScored.com rating of 7.88 in the clash at the Liberty Stadium, that far and away his best in a league match in 2020-21 and better than any other Swansea player in the December encounter.

Given all seven of Bournemouth's statistically calculated WhoScored.com strengths are focused on attacking, Latibeaudiere has a testing 90 minutes to look forward to on the south coast. That being said, one of Bournemouth's WhoScored.com weaknesses is 'aerial duels', that in itself one of Latibeaudiere's three strengths, so any attempts to beat the defender in the air may face difficulty.

With 'tackling' an additional WhoScored.com strength of Latibeaudiere's, and deservedly so with the former Manchester City man boasting a tackle success rate of 91.7%, it's another weapon in his arsenal that will be required to deny Bournemouth's top scorer Dominic Solanke from adding to his 11 league goals this season.

Bournemouth may have fallen to defeat to Barnsley at the weekend, but Solanke was on the scoresheet in the home loss to boost his own morale after a seven-game goalless run, and the hosts will view his finishing as key if they are to revive their promotion aspirations.

The 23-year-old's worst-rated performance of the campaign came in the aforementioned 0-0 draw with Swansea as he yielded a WhoScored.com rating of just 5.77.

Swansea will hope they can ensure a fruitless night for Solanke in front of goal, and that Latibeaudiere can again impress in the division's meanest defence.

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[Swans Cast]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkS7Aac1TCY

 

[swansnews]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6wF8th_Dkg

 

[Magic_Michu]

A win tonight would be absolutely huge. If we can not blow the next 2 games... get a rest for 2 weeks then it’s more than doable.

March looked the month we just needed to get through unscathed and I felt we’d be ok... so far, so good points wise... maybe not performance wise.

 

[PSumbler]

A win tonight would be absolutely huge. If we can not blow the next 2 games... get a rest for 2 weeks then it’s more than doable.

March looked the month we just needed to get through unscathed and I felt we’d be ok... so far, so good points wise... maybe not performance wise.

Is it just us that is suffering from a blip in performances? Clearly Norwich aren't but nobody else seems to be playing consistently well in terms of top notch performances but we remain the 4th most in form team in the division which shows we can grind out results. 3 points or more from the next 2 games and this could work very well for us

I can't help but have half an eye on our last two away fixtures of the season mind - not sure the nerves could handle that Watford game if it came down to that - like a play off final but possibly worse

 

[swansnews]

Bournemouth challenge awaits the Swans

When Bournemouth left the Liberty at the start of December with a point in their pocket they sat one point ahead of the Swans with both sides having played seventeen games. When we meet this evening at the Vitality Stadium then the Swans will be thirteen points clear and having played a game less than our hosts.

Read the full article here

 

[swansnews]

MASCOTS

Tonight's virtual mascots are Sonny Davies and Gethin Jones.

Sonny is aged 10, comes from Swansea, and his favourite player is Connor Roberts. Sonny has three brothers and two sisters, and will be celebrating his 11th birthday next week. Best wishes for your big day, Sonny!

Gethin is aged seven, and is also from Swansea. Gethin plays football for Meadow View and has a younger brother named Rhodri.

Gethin won one of our Junior Jacks World Book Day competitions by writing a letter to his favourite player, Connor Roberts.

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[Magic_Michu]

Bournemouth have Adam Smith, David Brookes and Lewis Cook out (ACL last week)... suddenly feeling more confident

 

[Ringwood Jack]

I sense my dog might need a walk around Kings Park later

 

[Muteswan]

Looking at one of their forums I noticed that their fans are very worried about defending corners and free kicks. No mention of Connor’s throw ins, maybe they’ve not noticed them. and of course they expect us to get a penalty.

 

[AlarchAlmaenig]

1 - 1 I reckon.

We'll score from a set piece. They'll score a well worked goal.

A draw is a good result here, I think. They get easier than this.

 

[sainthelens]

Dint underestimate the pressure they are under, they really have to win. Could easily play into our hands, we will start to click soon shirley!
Take a point, but have a feeling we'll rob this as well.