do you know from the end of last season I was trying to be positive, thinking we will rebuild with good quality championship players a new manager and the chance of winning a few games. But the lack of any ambition in our board and seeing our money being sent to DC United to fund players just makes me feel sick about the upcoming season.
GOAL SWANSEA! Dhanda with the volley James gets to the byline and puts a decent cross into the box. Yeovil think they’ve cleared it but the ball drops to Yan Dhanda, who blasts a volley into the left corner. Yeovil Town 1 Swansea City 1, 77mins
GOAL! YEOVIL 1 SWANS 2 What. A. Goal! The Swans are ahead in added on time, and what a goal it is from Matt Grimes! Make sure you watch our highlights tonight - cheap plug, I know, but it will be worth it. Grimes is teed up 25 yards out, and he rifles a tremendous left-footed effort into the top corner. There was no stopping that.
GOAL SWANSEA! Ayew forces a corner. Town clear the danger but Matt Grimes is lurking. He smashes it left-footed from 25 yards and it flies into the top corner! Yeovil Town 1 Swansea City 2, 92mins
League 2 opposition who were on top until they took 6 of their better players off and replaced them with youngsters and a trialist......you would expect a team just relegated to smash them like other teams from the prem/champ are doing...
Graham Potter used a total of 21 players as his first match in charge of the Swans ended in a win, as Grimes' late thunderbolt sealed the victory after Yan Dhanda had cancelled out Jordan Green’s first-half effort. Playing a new-look 3-5-2 system, the Swans began brightly and went close to breaking the deadlock inside the opening four minutes. After being picked out by Kyle Naughton’s excellent crossfield pass, Wayne Routledge’s subsequent centre was met by Connor Roberts, whose first-time volley was deflected onto the post by Shaun Donnellan. It then took a wonderful last-ditch Tom James intervention to prevent Luciano Narsingh from running clear on goal. However, the hosts looked equally threatening at set-pieces and, having already stung the palms of Erwin Mulder with a powerful strike, Green put them in front in the 25th minute when he scrambled home after the Swans failed to deal with a corner. Green almost added a second five minutes before the break as he skilfully skipped away from a couple of challenges, before flashing a shot wide of the target. Potter made seven changes at the break and the Swans controlled possession in the second half, but struggled to find the cutting edge in the final third. Andre Ayew stung the palms of Stuart Nelson and Grimes’ long-range effort wasn’t too far off target, while Yeovil did well to scramble the ball to safety after Dan James ran in behind the defence. James continued to cause problems with his pace and trickery down the right flank and he was instrumental in the Swans’ equaliser 13 times from time. Receiving the ball from Aaron Lewis, he cleverly skipped away from his marker before his cross broke kindly for Dhanda, whose volley deflected home beyond Nelson. Dhanda went close again as the Swans pushed for the winning goal, but it looked like the honours would be shared in Somerset. However, there was to be one final twist in stoppage time, as Grimes skipped away from his marker before unleashing a stunning 25-yard strike into the top corner. Yeovil starting XI: Stuart Nelson, Tom James, Carl Dickinson, Alefe Santos D'Abadia, Shaun Donnellan, Omar Sowumni, Jordan Green, Trialist, Alex Fisher, Rhys Browne, Diallang Jaiyesimi. Yeovil second-half XI: Francois Zoko, Daniel Alfei, Gary Warren, Bevis Mugabi, Tyrique Spencer-Clarke, Trialists x 6. Swans: Erwin Mulder, Connor Roberts (Ryan Blair, 65), Kyle Naughton (Aaron Lewis, 65), Mike van der Hoorn (Joe Rodon, 65), Cian Harries (Federico Fernandez, 46), Wayne Routledge (capt) (Dan James, 46), Jordi Amat (Matty Grimes, 46), Tom Carroll (Jay Fulton, 46), George Byers (Adnan Maric, 46), Luciano Narsingh (Yan Dhanda, 65), Oli McBurnie (Andre Ayew, 46).
Dai - I know you said previously that Welsh is your first language so can I suggest you read my post again ..,,, ‘got’ is past tense not future
