Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea City 2 Sunderland 3 | The EFL Championship

[bakajack]

Defending for their goal has become our Achilles heel. Again. The Cabungle factor is again gnawing at our collective psyche, most esp Matty’s who is being forced to drop ever deeper, thus exposing little Franco for the diminutive little midfielder (in a sea of English giants) that he is.

Another double whammer which Lukey boy needs to resolve.

I feel you are selling Franco short, he is being asked to play the higher of the two midfielders and to break up play higher up the pitch as a result. It was exactly that sort of action which saw him pinch the ball and the defender to pull him down for the free kick that Cullen scored from.

He could do with being a little closer to Grimes at times but the gap between them is not being helped by Grimes always dropping in between the centre halves making that gap between them artificially bigger than it would normally be as well as depriving us of someone in the hole as an out ball.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Defending for their goal has become our Achilles heel. Again. The Cabungle factor is again gnawing at our collective psyche, most esp Matty’s who is being forced to drop ever deeper, thus exposing little Franco for the diminutive little midfielder (in a sea of English giants) that he is.

Another double whammer which Lukey boy

Nobody is forcing Grimes to drop so deep, and leave Franco on his own.

Talking about Syntax - you're still writing the same boring Sh1te, whatever fvcking name you use Andy!!

 

[monmouth]

Cabango has been fine apart from his scary rabbit in the headlights moment when he realised he wasn’t actually Ben Messi. A man’s got to know his limitations Ben.

 

[bakajack]

Cabango has been fine apart from his scary rabbit in the headlights moment when he realised he wasn’t actually Ben Messi. A man’s got to know his limitations Ben.

It was also his decision making after losing the ball, the rugby tackle to bring down their player and take a yellow card was completely unnecessary when there were two other defenders available behind him

 

[LaJollaJack]

Cabango has been fine apart from his scary rabbit in the headlights moment when he realised he wasn’t actually Ben Messi. A man’s got to know his limitations Ben.

Cabungle is the root cause of our defensive frailties - and the very fact that Captain Matty HAS to drop so deep leaving Little Franco so very exposed.
It’s a downward defensive spiral.
It really is that simple.

 

[LaJollaJack]

Nobody is forcing Grimes to drop so deep, and leave Franco on his own.

Talking about Syntax - you're still writing the same boring Sh1te, whatever fvcking name you use Andy!!

Who are you ? Never noticed you.

 

[monmouth]

I don’t really get our tactics at the moment. I doubt we’ll defen 2-1 for over half an hour.

 

[Longlostjack]

Great challenge Cabango

 

[Longlostjack]

How long before Fulton comes on for Franco?

 

[monmouth]

It’s feeling like the pressure is building even though they aren’t really doing a lot.

 

[DanWelsh]

If we prevent Sunderland scoring any more goals, we will take the 3 points.

 

[Longlostjack]

VIP looks knackered

 

[monmouth]

Someone needs to say ‘calm the f**k down lads’

 

[CygnusX1]

Time for fresh legs

 

[monmouth]

VIP looks knackered

If only we had a 2m striker on the bench.