Match Day Thread Sunderland 0 v 2 Swansea City

Only in outer space ..... Well getting nervous , going to be " The Longest Night " ... do your job " Jack Army " and earn your tickets .

 

Must have a good game plan to win, The pressure is on us and if we are complacent we will lose, Our defense will be the thing we must get spot on as they have defoe who will punish us for any mistakes, We have Llorentte one of the best headers of the ball in the premiership imo so we must put plenty of crosses into the box that we can muster and Llorentte will do the business....

 

Dai is also good at mixed metaphors and I see he is back ^^^^.

There was a whole thread devoted to your absence, Dai - Kifflom was particularly worried.

 

We can't get relegated this weekend but we can secure our survival in the PL if we win and Hull lose or draw (unless we get thumped next week in the case of a draw).

As a minimum I think we need to match Hull's result whatever that will be. We can then go into the last game with a one point lead and a plus 5 goal difference. Out of 9 combinations of possible results in terms of win,draw,lose for both teams, 7 of those would see us stay up.

 

Worst outcome would be us losing and Hull winning.....

Anyway, cometh the hour, cometh the man

Alfie Mawson to score the winner today & Hull lose tomorrow

 

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...derland?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


Good article in the Guardian.

Highlights;

Clement also has help from within when it comes to choosing the right words at the right time. Asked to name the players who have stood out to him because of how vocal they are around the club, the Swansea manager mentions Leon Britton, Jack Cork, Wayne Routledge, Nathan Dyer and Àngel Rangel.

The list is interesting, not least because Britton is the only one of the five in the starting lineup at the moment – Cork was on the bench against Everton last Saturday – and yet the others continue to be hugely influential behind the scenes. Dyer, Routledge and Rangel, three of their longest-serving players, were in the tunnel before the Everton match kicked off despite none of them being fit, which says much about their affinity with the club and how important survival is to them.

“Wayne spoke in the dressing room just before we went out against Stoke,” Clement says, recalling the 2-0 home win last month. “He had his civilian gear on because he’s injured. He came in just as we were about to go out and he said: ‘I hope you all know how important this is. I hope you know.’ They were the last words, then out they all went and did a good job.”

Clement nods when it is put to him that the sort of longstanding relationship some of the Swansea players have with the club could give them an edge over Hull. “That could be seen as an advantage, people that understand the history,” he says. “As an example, Leon – what an affinity he has with the supporters. Unbelievable.”

Britton is the heartbeat of the club and everything that has happened at Swansea over the past few weeks, on and off the pitch, has confirmed why he is a legend in the eyes of the supporters. As well as playing superbly against Stoke, Manchester United and Everton, Britton took it upon himself to hand out copies of Jack to a King, the film that documents Swansea’s rise through the leagues, to all of his team-mates, so that they were in no doubt as to what the club means to the fans and the city. He also organised for the players to pay for 3,000 match tickets at Sunderland.

The 34-year-old is a manager’s dream in every sense and Clement is honest enough to admit that he now regrets not turning to the midfielder before. “Maybe Watford was the game I should have put Leon in,” Clement says, referring to the 1-0 defeat at Vicarage Road, a week prior to the Stoke match. “I used Jay [Fulton] in that game. Jay had experience of doing a job in the first team and the decision was that Watford are a big physical side. I am not saying that was the right thing to do as in fact when we’ve had Leon, Ki Sung-yueng and Tom Carroll in the midfield, it is not a big, really physical midfield but they are good footballers and they can play around people. So I was probably one game too late with Leon.”

Clement, in fairness, has also got plenty of decisions right since he was appointed at the start of the year. Swansea were bottom with 12 points from 19 games at that stage and looked doomed. Yet the 45-year-old has managed to restore hope and turn the season around through the combination of some astute signings – Carroll and Martin Olsson have impressed – and plenty of hard work on the training ground, in particular in relation to the defence.

What Clement is not able to do, however, is make definitive plans for next season, whether that be in relation to existing players or potential transfer targets. “It is all done with an HB pencil because things can change because of our situation,” he says.

Indeed, the only thing that matters for Swansea right now is what happens at the Stadium of Light. Thereafter Clement will decide whether to put himself through the ordeal of watching Hull take on Palace. “If we do a good job against Sunderland it’s going to be easier,” Clement says, smiling. “If we don’t I might lie in a dark room somewhere.”

 

I still stuck here

 

Poor sod !

 

Enjoy your free trip, pie and a pint but don't forget to buy a programme. Good luck.

 

With Leon in the midfield, you can bet he will pull all the strings this afternoon! going for a Swansea win 1-2.......................

 

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If we stay up I have to take wifey to New York if we go done it is an afternoon trip to the Coop

 

Good luck for this afternoon Swans. This will be the first time I have watched one of your games.....please don't let me down

 

I was working there today operating the audio visual for the training for volunteers for the Champions League...
Home now though !

 

Get in there!..................

 

GOOOOOAAAAALLLLL

How do you stop that combination of Sigurdsson to Llorente ??

Shame they'll both be gone next season

 

I love Llorente

 

game over.

 

Pretty good for someone who doesn't score too often - looks like job done (at least for today)

 

This is too good to be true