Swansea City v Bournemouth Competition - Sky Bet Championship Venue - Swansea.com Stadium Date - 22 February 2022 Kick off - 7:45 pm Following yet another hugely disappointing capitulation, this time to Sheffield United at Bramall Lane, next up for Russell Martin’s inconsistent Swansea squad is the daunting prospect of a home match against automatic promotion hopefuls Bournemouth. On Saturday, Sheffield United moved into the Championship play-off places with a dominant victory over the Swans at Bramall Lane. The hosts were relentless in the first half, going ahead when former Swan, Morgan Gibbs-White calmly flicked home after Oliver Norwood's delightful clipped pass in behind. George Baldock doubled the lead with an excellent arrowed volley off the underside of the bar from 12 yards and Gibbs-White then fed Billy Sharp, who lifted the ball over the sprawling Andy Fisher to put the Blades 3-0 up at the break. The Swans offered nothing in attack and Sharp turned provider for Sheffield United's fourth, rolling the ball back for Gibbs-White to side-foot into the far corner. Paul Heckingbottom's side have now lost only one of their past 14 league games, winning nine of them, and are now 6th in the Championship. The Swans, meanwhile, drop a place to 17th as their season looks set to fizzle out under Russell Martin - thank God for the point deductions suffered by Derby and Reading otherwise the Swans could very well be in a relegation scrap. Bournemouth had been due to host Nottingham Forest last Friday night but Storm Eunice caused the match to be postponed. The previous Saturday, Siriki Dembele scored a last-gasp winner for Bournemouth, who came from behind to win with two late goals at Blackpool. Josh Bowler's superb strike gave Blackpool the lead, after striker Dominic Solanke's penalty was saved by home keeper Daniel Grimshaw. Bournemouth equalised with four minutes remaining when Todd Cantwell's ball into the box was deflected towards ex-Swan Jamal Lowe, who fired home. And in the final moments Dembele, making his full debut, picked the ball up on the right before fizzing a low shot past Grimshaw. The Swans have played Bournemouth on 62 previous occasions, winning 23, losing 26 and drawing 13. In the corresponding fixture in December 2020 - on a terrible looking pitch - the 2 teams battled out a 0-0 draw, with both having decent shouts for a penalty denied by the officials: Turning to Tuesday evening, I can’t see anything other than a comfortable away win for Bournemouth 1-3. Hope I’m wrong
Thanks Taff. Well I sincerely hope to see a bounce back on Tuesday! I can't see us getting any more than a point and it might well be another disappointing defeat. So let's be hopeful and say 1-1
Thank you Taff...after watching the shower on Saturday I can’t see anything positive coming out of the game unfortunately unless RM has a change of formation like two up front and some attacking ideas...you never know
Wonder what the odds are that we will finally be awarded a penalty ….. and that Woodman will bloody save it Lowe must be odds on to score
Worth a read: https://planetswans.co.uk/2022/02/20/five-things-we-took-from-humiliation-at-sheffield-united/
This is getting depressing. At least try something different and lose 4 - 0, not the same old directionless possession for the sake of it. 1 - 2.
"Russell Martin : The first few glimpses of pressure ‘ I don’t come out here and lie to you’ - Swansea City News | Swansea Independent" https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footb...ssure-‘-i-don’t-come-out-here-and-lie-to-you’
Probably not, the yanks are skint ( well when it come to the Club they are) so expect him to hang on into the summer by then the owners will have a had a whip round and proffer another loan against the Club ( not investment ) . Well done Jenkins & co, you certainly did your diligence on the yanks .
Whilst I don’t for one minute expect the Club to sack him, the ‘cheap’ way - from a cash flow perspective - to offload Martin (and his cohorts) is to put him/them on ‘gardening leave’ and pay them their salary monthly. No upfront lump sum cash outlay and, who knows, if another club comes in they may even pay compensation - as per Cooper. (Unlikely, I know)
Swansea City's Championship game against Bournemouth on Tuesday has been postponed with the Welsh club citing "safety reasons" after storm-damage at their home ground. The club say neither a full assessment of damage at the Swansea.com Stadium nor the necessary repair work can be completed in time for kick-off. The decision was made "following an inspection by the licensing authority and club management".
