18-08-2024, 10:11
Swansea City 3 Grimes, Abdulai, Vipotnik Preston North End 0
Swansea City line-up: Vigouroux; Key (Naughton, 65), Cabango, Darling, Tymon (Tjoe-A-On, 88); Franco (Fulton, 65), Grimes; Eom (Abdulai, 57), Cooper, Ronald; Cullen (Vipotnik, 66). Subs not used: Broome, Pederson, Watts, Thomas.
PNE line-up: Woodman; Potts, Storey, Lindsay, Hughes; Whiteman; Frøkjær (Holmes, 72), Thórdarson, Ledson (Okkels, 64), Brady (Greenwood, 64), Riis (Osmajić, 64). Subs not used: Cornell, Whatmough, Keane, Bauer, Kesler-Hayden.
Attendance: 14,037 (393 PNE fans).
Referee: Mr S Martin.
Where do you start with this, Seven straight defeats, no goals scored in seven games(630 minutes) two managers gone in two weeks and in the last 20 minutes they could have replaced the entire outfield team with bollards who probably would have done a better job.
Thing about this one, we should have scored before Lindsay's brain freeze could have been level we had one brilliantly blocked which was going in and their second was deflected again, but we gave up. Booed off agai staggering shambles at the moment.
For the third time in 16 months Swansea away a total of 30 plus hours on a coach, although this was the first day game in those three.
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Two previous defeats 4-2, 2-1 this was the worse of the lot, arrived early enugh for the trip round the retail park, must be a Swansea tradition of people trying and failing to put wood or plaster board pieces into the boot of their car. Ice cream was the highlight of the entire day.
Only one change from the win over Sunderland on Tuesday, well battered in the first 20 minutes both wingers Ronald and the impressive Eom were running riot, athough personally thought they actually didn't look like scoring.
We had a bit of play and should have scored when Brady played in by Riis fired straight at the keeper.
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City took the lead from the spot Grimes easily scored Woodman didn't move, the penalty is one of these footballer's do the funniest things moment, Eom looked to have run the all out of play but crossed Lindsay for some reason only known to himself put his hand up as if to leave the room ball struck hiss arm, penalty, why it took so long to give was a mystery.
Started slightly better probably should have had a penalty when Darling handled, unlucky not to level when Ledson's poewerful effort was blocked when goal bound and that was it.
City's second shot hit Abdulai and went in, Woodman looked to have covered the original effort.
After that we gave up, spent the last 20 minutes waiting for City to add more goals which they did probably best goal of the game, Swans scythed through the non existent defence and Vipotnik scored from close range
Tremendous day out home at 11 pm, Marsh departed the club almost immediately after the final whistle utterly clueless.
Head coach Luke Williams felt his Swansea City side had taken a good step forward after opening their Championship account for the season with a 3-0 win over Preston North End at the Swansea.com Stadium.
Matt Grimes, Azeem Abdulai and Žan Vipotnik were on the scoresheet, while the Swans also kept a first clean sheet of the campaign.
Swansea had over 60 per cent of the ball, racking up 12 attempts on goal and six shots on target, and Williams was pleased with how they had backed up the positives from the midweek Carabao Cup win over Gillingham.
“It does not get a lot better than that, to be honest with you,” he said.
“To have three goals and a clean sheet, you can’t really complain. So we are happy with our day’s work today.
“We took a lot of lessons from that performance on Tuesday evening, and I think you could see a lot of the same things were evident again today.
“It was very pleasing, and we have a long way to go to be the team we want to be but there are a couple of good markers there and we have to maintain those levels as a minimum.
“We put a lot of work into the opposition during that first 45 minutes, and it became more difficult for them to shut those spaces down as the game went on.
“I actually thought they started the second half brilliantly well, and they threw a lot at us, but as the game wore on it became more our type of game and we find those spaces.
“We had that flair on the outside of the pitch, the full-backs were able to join in, but we also looked like we could penetrate through the middle of the pitch and we want to add that to our game steadily.”
Ben Whiteman stressed the importance of the squad sticking together following a difficult start to the campaign.
North End were beaten 3-0 at Swansea City and it was confirmed after the game that Mike Marsh – who was in interim charge following Ryan Lowe’s departure – would be leaving the club.
Ben, who became captain in the summer, provided post-match reaction after the defeat in South Wales.
He said: “It’s been a bit of a surreal start if we’re all being honest. It’s been really strange, but us lads have got to stick together.
“At the end of the day the main thing is the dressing room in there. We have got to stick together.
“There’s a large proportion of the season left so we’ve got to pick up results and I’m sure we’ll do that.”
In the defeat to Swansea, PNE fell behind late in the first half as Matt Grimes scored from the penalty spot, and Azeem Abdulai and Žan Vipotnik extended their advantage in the second half.
North End had big chances themselves on the day, falling to the likes of Robbie Brady and Ryan Ledson, but they were denied by the Swansea defence.
Ben said: “The result is nowhere near good enough. If you look at the goals as well they’re nowhere near good enough from us.
“We had a few chances, could we have stuck them away? It probably would have been a different game. As I mentioned before, nowhere good enough.
“They’re really, really poor goals on our behalf. We’ve had a few chances, but it wasn’t to be today and we’ve got to dust ourselves down and go again because it’s getting to crunch time.”
Just short of 400 supporters made the long journey to South Wales to cheer on their team in the first away day of the 2024/25 season.
Ben said: “Outstanding. They spend their hard-earned money obviously watching that so we understand the frustration.
“We’re not blind to that, we understand it, and it’s up to us to sort it out for them.”
Swansea City line-up: Vigouroux; Key (Naughton, 65), Cabango, Darling, Tymon (Tjoe-A-On, 88); Franco (Fulton, 65), Grimes; Eom (Abdulai, 57), Cooper, Ronald; Cullen (Vipotnik, 66). Subs not used: Broome, Pederson, Watts, Thomas.
PNE line-up: Woodman; Potts, Storey, Lindsay, Hughes; Whiteman; Frøkjær (Holmes, 72), Thórdarson, Ledson (Okkels, 64), Brady (Greenwood, 64), Riis (Osmajić, 64). Subs not used: Cornell, Whatmough, Keane, Bauer, Kesler-Hayden.
Attendance: 14,037 (393 PNE fans).
Referee: Mr S Martin.
Where do you start with this, Seven straight defeats, no goals scored in seven games(630 minutes) two managers gone in two weeks and in the last 20 minutes they could have replaced the entire outfield team with bollards who probably would have done a better job.
Thing about this one, we should have scored before Lindsay's brain freeze could have been level we had one brilliantly blocked which was going in and their second was deflected again, but we gave up. Booed off agai staggering shambles at the moment.
For the third time in 16 months Swansea away a total of 30 plus hours on a coach, although this was the first day game in those three.
Two previous defeats 4-2, 2-1 this was the worse of the lot, arrived early enugh for the trip round the retail park, must be a Swansea tradition of people trying and failing to put wood or plaster board pieces into the boot of their car. Ice cream was the highlight of the entire day.
Only one change from the win over Sunderland on Tuesday, well battered in the first 20 minutes both wingers Ronald and the impressive Eom were running riot, athough personally thought they actually didn't look like scoring.
We had a bit of play and should have scored when Brady played in by Riis fired straight at the keeper.
City took the lead from the spot Grimes easily scored Woodman didn't move, the penalty is one of these footballer's do the funniest things moment, Eom looked to have run the all out of play but crossed Lindsay for some reason only known to himself put his hand up as if to leave the room ball struck hiss arm, penalty, why it took so long to give was a mystery.
Started slightly better probably should have had a penalty when Darling handled, unlucky not to level when Ledson's poewerful effort was blocked when goal bound and that was it.
City's second shot hit Abdulai and went in, Woodman looked to have covered the original effort.
After that we gave up, spent the last 20 minutes waiting for City to add more goals which they did probably best goal of the game, Swans scythed through the non existent defence and Vipotnik scored from close range
Tremendous day out home at 11 pm, Marsh departed the club almost immediately after the final whistle utterly clueless.
Head coach Luke Williams felt his Swansea City side had taken a good step forward after opening their Championship account for the season with a 3-0 win over Preston North End at the Swansea.com Stadium.
Matt Grimes, Azeem Abdulai and Žan Vipotnik were on the scoresheet, while the Swans also kept a first clean sheet of the campaign.
Swansea had over 60 per cent of the ball, racking up 12 attempts on goal and six shots on target, and Williams was pleased with how they had backed up the positives from the midweek Carabao Cup win over Gillingham.
“It does not get a lot better than that, to be honest with you,” he said.
“To have three goals and a clean sheet, you can’t really complain. So we are happy with our day’s work today.
“We took a lot of lessons from that performance on Tuesday evening, and I think you could see a lot of the same things were evident again today.
“It was very pleasing, and we have a long way to go to be the team we want to be but there are a couple of good markers there and we have to maintain those levels as a minimum.
“We put a lot of work into the opposition during that first 45 minutes, and it became more difficult for them to shut those spaces down as the game went on.
“I actually thought they started the second half brilliantly well, and they threw a lot at us, but as the game wore on it became more our type of game and we find those spaces.
“We had that flair on the outside of the pitch, the full-backs were able to join in, but we also looked like we could penetrate through the middle of the pitch and we want to add that to our game steadily.”
Ben Whiteman stressed the importance of the squad sticking together following a difficult start to the campaign.
North End were beaten 3-0 at Swansea City and it was confirmed after the game that Mike Marsh – who was in interim charge following Ryan Lowe’s departure – would be leaving the club.
Ben, who became captain in the summer, provided post-match reaction after the defeat in South Wales.
He said: “It’s been a bit of a surreal start if we’re all being honest. It’s been really strange, but us lads have got to stick together.
“At the end of the day the main thing is the dressing room in there. We have got to stick together.
“There’s a large proportion of the season left so we’ve got to pick up results and I’m sure we’ll do that.”
In the defeat to Swansea, PNE fell behind late in the first half as Matt Grimes scored from the penalty spot, and Azeem Abdulai and Žan Vipotnik extended their advantage in the second half.
North End had big chances themselves on the day, falling to the likes of Robbie Brady and Ryan Ledson, but they were denied by the Swansea defence.
Ben said: “The result is nowhere near good enough. If you look at the goals as well they’re nowhere near good enough from us.
“We had a few chances, could we have stuck them away? It probably would have been a different game. As I mentioned before, nowhere good enough.
“They’re really, really poor goals on our behalf. We’ve had a few chances, but it wasn’t to be today and we’ve got to dust ourselves down and go again because it’s getting to crunch time.”
Just short of 400 supporters made the long journey to South Wales to cheer on their team in the first away day of the 2024/25 season.
Ben said: “Outstanding. They spend their hard-earned money obviously watching that so we understand the frustration.
“We’re not blind to that, we understand it, and it’s up to us to sort it out for them.”
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