Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea City 3 Leeds United 4 | The EFL Championship

[Pentyrchjack]

Leeds had the cutting edge when it mattered. We had our chances too - Abdullai with a header late on and Bianchini (before he scored). Great save from Leeds keeper in top left corner to parry a screamer from Key.

Great game to watch. They just had that extra class when it mattered. No complaints from me.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Can't fathom out how Peart-Harris played the full game and Ronald 80 odd minutes but Franco gets taken off, more positives than negatives though, definitely moving in the right direction...

 

[3swan]

We lost to a better team, mostly as they had pace to burn. In saying that all our failings put us under pressure. P H was poor all game, Ronald not much better.
We were slow in thought missing passing opportunities which were then closed down
Williams must also look at his sub decisions and timings.
Lack of anything up front and yes I know we scored 3 but Bianchini should have been on earlier. When we got the 3rd it should have been game management.
Abdulai brought in when we had experience of Naughton and Christie on the bench?
Also why wasn't Vipotnik used?

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

That we could go toe-to-toe with a team like that when we have clear deficiencies in our team is very encouraging (same could be said for Burnley game).

We're not a fundamentally broken team anymore, we have some good foundations and (I hope) it's clear to management where we need to strengthen.

Plenty of positives, plenty of negatives, but at least we gave a f*cking good go of it.

 

[mrploppy]

A word about Josh Key. He's excellent at times but he doesn't half run down blind alleys sometimes and is very prone to losing the ball when he ventures infield. Poor misplaced pass by him that led to their winning goal. I thought having got back to 3-3 we should have shut up shop and taken the point. Very naive. In other news, what does anyone see in MPH?

 

[LaJollaJack]

We’ve been defensively naïve today, yes, but we’ve gone toe to toe with probably the best team in the division and come within a few minutes of getting a point. I prefer that to sitting back and losing 0-1, 0-2.

The other game I was referring to was Burnley where, frankly, we were robbed of a deserved point by a piss poor refereeing decision.

We could have been defensively savvy instead of naive.

And that’s the point.

I imagine our new owners will be expecting better, given their level of active investment (in stark contrast to the passive disinterest of the previous maj owners)

‘We need a better manager’ is most likely the convos at the top table, I’d wager.

 

[3swan]

A word about Josh Key. He's excellent at times but he doesn't half run down blind alleys sometimes and is very prone to losing the ball when he ventures infield. Poor misplaced pass by him that led to their winning goal. I thought having got back to 3-3 we should have shut up shop and taken the point. Very naive. In other news, what does anyone see in MPH?

MPH was made man of the match against Watford? Even then I didn't see much in him then apart from a bit more involvement.

Trying not to be harsh but I felt we played with 10 men today.

 

[3swan]

Insanity, ref gives a free kick there but not for exactly the same against Ronald earlier in the game

No big decisions to be made but I thought the ref was poor.

 

[Swanjaxs]

MPH was made man of the match against Watford? Even then I didn't see much in him then apart from a bit more involvement.

Trying not to be harsh but I felt we played with 10 men today.

I'll be even harsher, we played with 9 if you include Ronald (even with his "assist")

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

A word about Josh Key. He's excellent at times but he doesn't half run down blind alleys sometimes and is very prone to losing the ball when he ventures infield. Poor misplaced pass by him that led to their winning goal. I thought having got back to 3-3 we should have shut up shop and taken the point. Very naive. In other news, what does anyone see in MPH?

There were large chunks of the game where we got organized behind the ball and Leeds created next to nothing - we should have backed ourselves to see out added time like that after it went 3-3, but the players, or management (or both) seemed to get caught up in the occasion a little and we paid the price.

 

[3swan]

I'll be even harsher, we played with 9 if you include Ronald (even with his "assist")

I had to set someone else up

 

[Magic_Michu]

Yep. We'll finish around 12th I reckon.

I still believe we can be there or there abouts play offs… even with the current squad we’re improving week by week.

If we can get some points on the board in the next month that has a lot of winnable games … then some good investment in January, Noel Milleskog please , then I don’t see why we can’t challenge top 6.

The quality in the league isn’t much this year.

 

[Swansea93]

I still believe we can be there or there abouts play offs… even with the current squad we’re improving week by week.

If we can get some points on the board in the next month that has a lot of winnable games … then some good investment in January, Noel Milleskog please , then I don’t see why we can’t challenge top 6.

The quality in the league isn’t much this year.

9 goals and 4 assists in 27 games for him this season.

 

[Magic_Michu]

9 goals and 4 assists in 27 games for him this season.

My fear is we’ve left it too late and other teams will be all over him now

 

[LaJollaJack]

There were large chunks of the game where we got organized behind the ball and Leeds created next to nothing - we should have backed ourselves to see out added time like that after it went 3-3, but the players, or management (or both) seemed to get caught up in the occasion a little and we paid the price.

That’s a tad half empty.
We have the ability to push on and press, if the manager only knew how (he’s out of his depth).
And you’re right the management got caught up and tied up in its own knot of ineptitude at this level.
A better manager would have got a point at the very least.