Swansea City v Nottingham Forest Competition - Sky Bet Championship Venue - Swansea.com stadium Date - 11 December 2021 Kick off - 3pm Following their disappointing 0-1 defeat away at Middlesbrough, next up for Russell Martin’s Swansea squad is a home match against his predecessor’s new team, Nottingham Forest. Last Saturday, Isaiah Jones' first goal of the season gave Middlesbrough victory against an out-of-sorts Swansea City. After an uneventful first 25 minutes, the game came to life when Jones beat the offside trap to break clear and calmly beat Ben Hamer to open the scoring. Just before half time Jamie Paterson broke clear of the Boro defence, went down in the area, and despite strong appeals from Swansea players, referee Andy Davies instead booked Paterson for simulation. The Swans have still not been awarded a penalty in the Championship this season ….. In truth, the Swans rarely threatened in the first half but were much improved after the break, and Joel Piroe thought he had drawn them level only to see Paddy McNair clear his shot off the line. The victory moved Chris Wilder's Boro above Swansea and up to ninth in the Championship, while back-to-back defeats for the first time this season sees the Swans drop to 14th. Whilst the Swans were losing at the Riverside, James Garner scored and set up another as Steve Cooper's Nottingham Forest handed Peterborough their 10th away defeat of the season. The Manchester United loanee turned in Brennan Johnson's cross from close range to break the deadlock 18 minutes from time. Ryan Yates then converted Garner's corner from close range to make sure of the points. Siriki Dembele almost put Posh in front early in the second half when his left-foot shot hit the post, but the visitors' goalless run extended to five matches. The win moved Forest up to 13th in the Championship, 1 point and 1 place above Swansea. The Swans have played Forest on 68 previous occasions, with each team winning 26 matches and with 16 drawn. Without doubt the most memorable match between the sides was the Championship Play Off semi final at the Liberty in May 2011 when the Swans ran out 3-1 winners: Turning to Saturday, both teams and both Managers will be desperate to run out winners: Russell Martin will want to stop the rot and not record a 3rd successive defeat, whilst Steve Cooper will want to get one over his previous employers. I’m hoping for a 2-0 win for the Swans - but I think that it will end 1–1.
Thanks Taff. I expect Forest will be determined to take something away from this game for various reasons. They will be tough to break down, so it could well be another game where we monopolise possession but fail to create too many clear chances. If we don't make silly defensive mistakes I can see us nicking this 1-0 but wouldn't be at all surprised to see it ending 0-0.
I think Cooper's going to have the edge in this one, unfortunately. We just can't score a goal at the moment and they might let us keep possession, as we do, and hit us with the sucker punch. This could well be a low(non) scoring draw.
Thanks again Taff....Cooper will be looking for the result to prove how good he is...it is up to RM to get our troops firing on all cylinders just likethe Cardiff game but can he? I hope we get a win to cheer us up ready for the festivities....
Well, he did get The Swans' to consecutive Championship play offs, so he really doesn't have much, if anything, to prove. In addition, he seems to have transformed Forest. Too much sour grapes regarding Cooper. He deserves better. I wouldn't be surprised if he puts one over on his former Club.
and won neither , in fact he embarrassed the Club on our second outing. But let the record books show blah blah blah
And you won what, exactly ? Enlighten us. It's people like you who embarrass the Club, always complaining, always insulting, always being free with advice, yet having little concrete to say. Stick to reminiscing about buying boots from defunct shops. That's YOUR contribution, and no blah, blah about it.
There we are then .I don't think this tread is about what I have ,haven't nor ever will win . Your problem is any slight criticism of your love child is taken so painfully to heart its quite touching .I'm sure one day Cooper will be finally able to sit down when he gets around to extraditing your tongue from his arse .
Swansea City make two changes to the starting XI for this afternoon’s Championship encounter with Nottingham Forest in SA1. Russell Martin is without Kyle Naughton, who is Isolating due to a positive case of covid-19 within his family. Ryan Bennett starts in his place, with the 31-year-old set to make his 14th league appearance of the campaign. The other change sees Olivier Ntcham recalled to the starting XI in place of Rhys Williams, with the Frenchman having come off the bench in last weekend’s defeat at Middlesbrough. Swansea City: Ben Hamer, Ethan Laird, Ben Cabango, Ryan Bennett, Ryan Manning, Matt Grimes (capt), Flynn Downes, Korey Smith, Olivier Ntcham, Jamie Paterson, Joel Piroe. Subs: Steven Benda, Rhys Williams, Joel Latibeaudiere, Jake Bidwell, Liam Walsh, Michael Obafemi, Liam Cullen. Nottingham Forest: Brice Samba, Djed Spence, Joe Worrall, Lewis Grabban (capt), Jack Colback, Philip Zinckernagel, Brennan Johnson, Ryan Yates, Jordi Osei-Tutu, Scott McKenna, James Garner. Subs: Ethan Horvath, Joao Carvalho, Gaetan Bong, Alex Mighten, Cafu, Braian Ojeda, Lyle Taylor.
