Apart from that faux pas he featured well in the highlights. He's been a good addition to their side this season.
When I saw the disallowed goal live I thought it looked very soft and thought Vorm should have done better, but I was watching on a stream hence not great quality and with the commentators so convinced that Lallana had infringed I figured there must have been something to it. Watching it again... He's just dropped it.
As I mentioned pre-match I was interested to see how we would do against a team of about our own standard. We panicked top sides into the long ball they were less familiar with, but struggled against teams like QPR and West Ham who are used to the long ball. Have only see highlights (so will bow to those who went) but it looked like we reverted to our ping pong defence before settling in. Well done to Yoshida for his goal line clearance. The Swans had more chances in the stats, but the best chances shown on MOTD were mainly us. Their GK saved them and we had a goal (probably) wrongly disallowed. Think we missed Shaw. A point is ok...now 6 games unbeaten, so we are not a flash in the pan. With any game you can get a lucky goal or let in a soft goal, so you won't win them all.
Indeed, if it really mattered I'd be pretty furious, as it is I'm a little disappointed but not that bothered, shame that it dents our top-10 hopes but no great issue in the end.
Understandable that it was disallowed though. Another split second decision that is so hard to call live, especially with Adam's arms up.
That's the 3rd time this season that I can recall a perfectly good goal has been disallowed for a 'foul' on the keeper. This time it looked very much as though the linesman couldnt even see it and guessed. The other two were the foul on Yoshida that the ref gave their way, and the shove and fall down cheating on Puncheon (by I think Fulham's keeper).
I remember watching the Fulham one and isn't that the one where Puncheon tripped him over. If so, then fair decision whether the goalie made a meal or not, Puncheon intentionally stuck his leg out to trip him.
I'm talking about the one where the keep realised we wasnt going to make it, grab/pushed puncheon and dived. And not the proper keeper dive either!
I don't recall that. We only had a goal disallowed at home in the first half didn't we? I thought that was the one when Punch tripped the keeper, but I am old and off the beer/wine so my brain might not be working properly.
No team in the PL keep the ball better than Swansea. They're all confident on the ball and most importantly confident in each other and where each other should be. They had us chasing shadows for the 1st 20 minutes and it looked like it was going to be a long afternoon, but we adjusted well and eventually managed to get a foothold in the game and keep the ball ourselves. Cork was great again. Clyne had some suspect defensive moments in the air but got forward well. Really want him to focus on his final delivery as he gets himself in great positions but often fails with that quality cross or pass
You may be thinking about two different events, but also possible it is the same one. Apparently if you think about an event a lot, you can fictionalise it and you remember your thoughts as if they really happened. If asked to recall something that you have never thought much about, your memory will be more accurate.
I thought the goal was good but a draw was probably the fair result. Really thought we were going to batter you in the first 20 mins but our heads dropped when we couldn't get through and that allowed you back into the game. Fair play, your team defended really well in that period. If Dyer learned to cross the ball we'd have won the game. He's been great for us in the past but is rapidly becoming the object of fans' frustration. All in all this was a game involving two similar teams that won't be too far away from each other come end of season.
We could have told you Dyer couldn't cross a ball 5 years ago and saved you a lot of trouble! I think that was the difference really between you breaking through our defence and the clean sheet, Fox was constantly giving Dyer 10+ yards of room to make up for the difference in pace, if Dyer had of taken advantage of that to whip some decent balls in or picked someone out on the 3/4 times he broke behind our line then we wouldn't have kept our sheet clean. I haven't checked the stats but at least 50% of your attacks must have come down the right but Dyer couldn't make it pay. Thank god because I'm not sure I could've stomached him not only stealing (no pun intended) the three points from us back in November but also orchestrating a defeat for us yesterday!
