Swansea City v Birmingham City Competition - Sky Bet Championship Venue - Liberty Stadium Date - 25 August 2019 Kick off - Noon Following their highly impressive 3-1 away win against QPR, next up for Steve Cooper’s Swansea squad is a home match against Pep Clotet’s Birmingham City. The win against Rangers lifted the Swans to second in the Championship - Bersant Celina gave the visitors the lead after being put through by André Ayew, but after the break Jordan Hugill glanced in a header to equalise. Just three minutes later Swansea were back in front as Yoann Barbet brought down Jordan Garrick in the box, allowing Borja to score from the spot. Substitute Sam Surridge connected with Ayew's cross to make the game safe. The previous evening, goals from Lukas Jutkiewicz and Alvaro Gimenez has given Birmingham City a comfortable 2-0 victory over Barnsley. After a tepid 70 minutes at St Andrew's, Jutkiewicz scored his fourth consecutive home goal for Blues after rising to power home a Wes Harding cross down the right. Gimenez scored his first goal for Pep Clotet's men soon after, superbly chipping Sami Radlinger in the visitors' net to double the hosts' lead. It was just reward for Birmingham's domination of the game, in which Barnsley only managed one shot on target. Last season, the teams played out an exciting 3-3 draw under Graham Potter for Swansea and former Swan Garry Monk. Potter left the Liberty Stadium to take over at Brighton, whilst Monk’s employment at Birmingham was terminated, with his former No.2 (at Swansea & Birmingham) replacing him. Turning to Sunday, I’m going for a 3-1 home win.
We're certainly scoring goals and good ones at that , not flukes in off the arse of a defender. It looks like the confidence is there but no cockiness please , we will lose at some point but because of the better teams' performance not because we think we only have to turn up. Hopefully we'll have a good crowd for this one as I believe B/Ham have sold their allocation .
Been a bit reluctant to predict wins so far, but now it has to be. 2-0 home win. Please start like the QPR game and play from the first whistle.
I think we'll throw this game 0 - 1 and get deducted a point and banned for the next game (Leeds). I'll then win the prediction league.... oops, did I say that out loud? Edit: I've had my medication and nursey has approved my new prediction, 4 - 1 to the Swans.
I am sticking with not predicting a win as I have got everyone wrong. So going for a 1-1, prove me wrong again guys.
I am going for 2-1 and hopefully we will win from the front rather than go a goal down. The question is will it be a last game for 1or 2 of the Swans team?
Despite reservations, A Ayew has made a big difference to the team. Classy display last night. I hope we keep him as he could make the difference between top 6 or not.
If they keep them until the January window, they could make a better informed choice - we may be right in the mix (then worth keeping) or we could be mid-table so they could offload them. Assuming they both (Ayew and Bastón) play well, it is likely that the increase in transfer value would more than offset their wages between now and January.
Unfortunately I think it wont matter where we are in the league, if someone offers us a reasonable amount of cash for either of them, they will be gone now or in January. Not convinced our board want us anywhere near the PL again, they may actually have to spend some money, which they haven't got or wont spend.
I actually believe that if there’s a realistic chance of going back up, the Yanks would let them stay - promotion to the PL is the only realistic way of them getting their /investment money back. If we get promoted, they will seek to offload us asap
I am not so sure, you may well be right, I am convinced that they have already syphoned out what they paid for the club, I wont say invested. I hope you are right and if we go up they will sell. I live in hope.
If you look at the accounts, there’s not much that could have been siphoned off. From a cash perspective, Huw’s largesse has been costly ....
We could be in Bolton or Bury's shoes if the Americans walked away.....Think on that.....I can see many clubs going the same way while the big rich clubs take the cream off the top.....The premiership today is not a place for a club like ours to be....It is far too expensive and will drain our clubs resources in no time at all; I hate the way football has gone, It's greed shows no bounds and more clubs will have no option but to make cut backs.....
I’ve gone with that prediction for 3 of our 4 league games so far and we’ve won all three. The one game I went with a different prediction was against Derby and we didn’t win. I’m stickin’ to what I knows works !