Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea City vs Cardiff City | The EFL Championship

[SwanseaJack]

Darling and Eom need to pick up a little, think Franco has been unreal breaking play up and buzzing around

 

[Captain_Sham]

Darling makes me nervous. Even when we were on top it seemed obvious he's the one its going through and he's got a mistake in him.

 

[monmouth]

Darling living on the edge a bit buying some extremely soft free kicks, ref is giving him less and less now so he needs to toughen up

Darling needs to recognise his limitations. He started well and now seems to think he’s Messi. That said, he’s probably had more touches than Cardiff . Goal aside we’ve created nothing, and they’ve created absolutely nothing. We need a second from somewhere. Creating chances is going to be a big challenge for us this season.

 

[Ringwood]

Key is passing backwards at very opportunity and Cabango and Darlingare just slowing the gamedown and when they pass forward it goes nowhere. Grimes hiding a bit.

Plus side we are winning and enough quality to get further goals if we just step it up a bit from the back

 

[ABSwan]

Darling has had a few good runs forward as well.

 

[monmouth]

Darling is having a mare of a half....needs to wake himself up

I thought he was excellent until he thought he was excellent.

 

[JackSomething]

Same score at half-time against Preston and a similar performance in the first half. I'll be delighted if our second half mirrors the Preston game also...

 

[bakajack]

Ramsey has pushed up about 10 yards offering a 2 man press on Darling and Cabango cutting off the easy out ball. Need to adjust our own approach to counter that

 

[ABSwan]

They need a kick at half time though, Cardiff are not out of this by a long chalk, a goal for them and its anybodies.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

C*rdiff quite happy to go in 1-0 down. Ronald, other than his shot anonymous. Eom, missing, and Cullen no service!!

 

[bakajack]

Darling and Eom need to pick up a little, think Franco has been unreal breaking play up and buzzing around

Franco has been superb

 

[Captain_Sham]

Now that they have tweaked, we should do the same. When NG stepped up Ronald was left in acres of space. We need to to match the change with a more direct approach.
If we carry on like this it going to be 1-1 in no time.

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

Yeah, Darling needs to cut out that 'I'll just lightly shield the ball and go down at the slightest touch' thing he's been relying on all game and start defending properly.

Eom has been...Eononymous...needs a rocket up his arse or we get to see what Bianchini can do.

 

[Ringwood]

Eom is getting nothing from Key.. the wing swap will now isolate Ronald unless we go long

 

[bakajack]

The huge positive though is that both our strikers are scoring goals, both of them giving each other a reason to keep performing. 2 this season for Cullen and 1 for Vipotnik