One of the biggest frustrations for me this season is that when things don’t go to plan (or more to the point go as they should) then we hear the same tired excuses over and over again and that was the exact case after the Swans dropped two points at home to Wycombe yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n
After everyone thought we may have turned a corner with wins at Millwall and Sheffield Wednesday it was back to the ‘same old, same old’ yesterday afternoon as the Swans were thankful to Wycombe opening the door for them to come back into the game rather than our overriding desire to get something out of a game that we have up on with more than 35 minutes to go.<\/p>\n
We were barely at the races before Wycombe scored twice at the start of the second half and, if truth be told, we were never at the races for anything other than three minutes around the 80th minute when we were given the gift of a handball in the area to let us into a game that we didn’t seem to want to be part of.<\/p>\n
After another afternoon of watching our incredibly pedestrian midfield offer our front line very little signs of creation Wycombe must have been wondering why this Championship lark is so difficult when they were so comfortable against – what the table told them – was the 3rd best team in the division.<\/p>\n
The changes, when they happened, made by the Swans were purely like for like changes and not a single player (maybe Liam Cullen excepted) was able to have an impact in a game against a side who have struggled at this level all season.<\/p>\n
Which is what then adds to the frustration when you hear the words of Steve Cooper after the game \u201cIn a way you are happy with the point, but disappointed not to have won. I think it was a missed opportunity for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did not play well enough in the first half with the ball, our positional play wasn\u2019t quite right in the middle of the pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of that we didn\u2019t make enough passes and didn\u2019t get up the pitch, and it had a knock-on effect.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried to sort that out at half-time, but the start to the second half was really poor and disappointing. They were two soft goals, and in that period we did not do the non-negotiables you have to do.”<\/p>\n
These are the same words that we heard after defeats to Bournemouth, Cardiff, Birmingham and Preston.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Maybe not exactly the same words in the same order but undoubtedly the same sentiment which continues to beg the question as to how we keep making the same mistakes.<\/p>\n
Watford were beaten, Brentford only drew on a day where this was Swansea’s chance.\u00a0 Home against a side as good as relegated and we blew our opportunity.\u00a0 \u00a0We should have had them under pressure from the first minute but we didn’t and we should have hit them with high tempo football and some incisive passing.\u00a0 But again we didn’t.<\/p>\n
These no longer feel like excuses or reasons from the manager of a game where another opportunity is blown but when we keep doing the same things it is either something that is asked to happen or just that we aren’t good enough to do anything different.<\/p>\n
And both of those scenarios are not comfortable to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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