Match Day Thread Swansea City v Sheffield Wednesday

Swansea City v Sheffield Wednesday

Competition - Sky Bet Championship
Date - 25 November 2020
Kick off - 7.45pm
Venue - Liberty Stadium

Following their deserved 1-0 home win against Rotherham, next up for Steve Cooper’s Swansea squad is another home match, this time against Sheffield Wednesday.

Last Saturday, the Swans secured a third successive home win over a blunt Rotherham United thanks to Matt Grimes' first-half goal.

Grimes claimed a first goal of the season as his speculative effort went straight through goalkeeper Jamal Blackman, who endured a tough afternoon.

Jamal Lowe and Jake Bidwell were both denied by last-ditch blocks as they looked to add gloss to the scoreline.

Rotherham saw a late penalty claim for handball by Ryan Bennett turned down.

As a result, the Swans rose to fourth in the Championship, two points off top spot, while Rotherham are 19th.

Whilst the Swans were beating the Millers, Tony Pulis' tenure as Sheffield Wednesday boss started with a defeat at Preston, as he saw his new team have to play for more than 70 minutes with 10 men.

The visitors had Josh Windass sent off after 17 minutes for a dreadful high challenge on Joe Rafferty.

Tom Barkhuizen gave the home team the lead with a well-hit volley after Owls goalkeeper Keiren Westwood's punch clear dropped to him 16 yards out.

Wednesday pushed for an equaliser but struggled to create any clear chances and defeat means they remain second bottom of the Championship.

The Swans have played the Owls on 33 occasions, winning just 8, drawing 12 and losing 13.

In the corresponding fixture last season, played on 5th July, the Swans ran out 2-1 victors thanks to goals from Rhian Brewster and Andre Ayew:

Turning to Wednesday evening, I’m going for another 2-1 home win for the Swans against the Owls, and making it 4 home wins on the bounce.

 

Another bloody good write up Taff. We are lucky you take the trouble, ......... Well done.

 

I’m confident of a 2-0 win.

 

New manager for them, Pulis sides are difficult to breakdown and will probably try and bully us like Rotherham tried. They will focus on set pieces?

 

I’m going for another 2-1 home win for the Swans against the Owls, and making it 4 home wins on the bounce.

 

He will set them up to take a point and try and catch us on the break.

We are good enough to get all three points If we put our chances away. 2-0 to the Swans

 

As always thanks Taff

4-1 Swans no problem.

 

Thanks Taff. Like your positivity 55282...another winnable game even with Pulis in charge if we take our chances...2 nil Swans

 

We can't judge Pulis' first result as they played with 10 most of the game. Like Glam said though, I think he'll set up to be tight and hope for a break of some sort.

We should really win this, so I'll say 1 - 0, fingers crossed. I have a sneaking suspicion this could be a frustrating 0 - 0 though. Hope I'm wrong. A win would be amazing to keep the confidence high, it's been a great start.

 

Many thanks again for the excellent foreword @Taffvalerowdy Like others have said, Pulis’ sides are difficult to break down (long ball, 4-4-2, no nonsense, scrap for a point). That said, I’m also hopeful of scraping 3-points given the home advantage - Owls down in 23rd too.

SWA 1-0 SHW

 

They not exactly scoring many so I'm going for a tight 2-0 to us

 

Swansea City boss Steve Cooper makes one change for tonight’s Championship clash with Sheffield Wednesday.

The only alteration from the weekend win over Rotherham sees Korey Smith come into midfield as Jay Fulton drops to the bench.

Freddie Woodman continues in goal with Ryan Bennett, Kyle Naughton and Ben Cabango making up the back three.

Connor Roberts and Jake Bidwell are the wing-backs with Smith joining captain Matt Grimes in midfield.

Yan Dhanda takes the attacking midfield role, with Jamal Lowe and Liam Cullen paired together in attack.

Andre Ayew is fit enough for a place on the bench.

Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Ben Cabango, Ryan Bennett, Kyle Naughton; Connor Roberts, Korey Smith, Matt Grimes (captain), Jake Bidwell; Yan Dhanda; Liam Cullen, Jamal Lowe.

Substitutes: Steven Benda, Ryan Manning, Jay Fulton, Joel Latibeaudiere, Andre Ayew, Kasey Palmer, Wayne Routledge, Oli Cooper, Tivonge Rushesha.

Sheffield Wednesday: Keiren Westwood, Liam Palmer, Joost van Aken, Callum Paterson, Barry Bannan (captain), Adam Reach, Julian Borner, Tom Lees, Jordan Rhodes, Massimo Luongo, Moses Odubajo.

Substitutes: Joe Wildsmith, Joey Pelupessy, Matt Penney, Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, Osaze Urhoghide, Izzy Brown, Liam Shaw, Alex Hunt, Elias Kachunga.

Referee: Andy Woolmer

 

Good to see Andre back even if nay on the bench

 

Ayew to come off the bench to win it for us

 

Come on lads, let’s have a good start.

 

Pitch looks terrible

 

Come on Sky, put some pitch side sound on!!

 

What's Nathan Dyer doing these days?

 

Think he’s still training with the club

 

Training with the Swans to keep fit in case an opportunity arises at a club