Match Day Thread Derby County v Swansea City

Derby County v Swansea City

Competition - Sky Bet Championship
Venue - Pride Park
Date - 10 August 2019
Kick Off - 3pm

Following their comeback victory over Hull City, next up for Steve Cooper’s Swansea squad is a visit to Derby County - one of the teams expected to be in the mix for automatic promotion.

Against Hull, ex-England Under-17 coach Cooper claimed three points in his first game in club football thanks to an impressive Swans revival.

Hull led after just three minutes thanks to Kamil Grosicki, and that remained the score at half-time.

Swansea needed some inspiration after the break, and it was Borja who provided it with an instinctive flicked header after Fulton had helped on Nathan Dyer's cross.

This was just the second goal of Borja's Swansea career, with the other one coming at Arsenal in October 2016.

A little over 100 seconds later, Cooper's team were in front.

Jake Bidwell's cross bounced off the crossbar to Dyer, whose centre was headed home by a stooping Van der Hoorn at the near post.

The lively Dyer had chances to extend the lead, but he was denied on three occasions by Hull keeper George Long.

Two days later, Phillip Cocu started his tenure as Derby boss with victory over relegated Huddersfield thanks to a double from Tom Lawrence.

Wales international Lawrence scored twice in three minutes to put the Rams in control, first lobbing into an empty net after an error by Tommy Elphick and then curling in a fine effort from the edge of the area.

Karlan Grant pulled one back from the penalty spot before the break after Kieran Dowell had brought down Juninho Bacuna.

The hosts had the better of the second half but could not find an equaliser, with Rams keeper Kelle Roos making a brave stop to deny Town skipper Christopher Schindler and sub Elias Kachunga blazing high and wide.

Turning to Saturday, Derby will be favourites to win at Pride Park, but I think that Cooper’s men can get a point. 1-1

 

Derby County 2 - 0 Swansea City.

Can't see us getting anything from this. Hope I'm very wrong.

 

Think we will nick a goal, but I am afraid we will concede 3. 3-1 Derby.

 

Just wondering why its a defeat for us ? I'm going for 0-2 , plenty of attacking options and defensively I thought we dealt with Hull well enough ( their goal was deflected by the way ) so a positive outcome for us

 

I think we will put up a good show and surprise a few people but will be unlucky and come away on the wrong side of a 2-1 scoreline but would love us to share the spoils

 

I’m going for a well earned hard fought draw. 1-1

 

2 - 0 Swans which sends my predictions for Aug spiraling out the window..

 

With squads still not settled it’s difficult to predict anything at the moment. As Derby are on their own patch I’d put them as favourites, so I’m going for Derby 2 Swans 1

 

Because of the unpredictability so early in the season is why i;m going for a swans win. Hope Rooney plays and then we will win

 

He's joining next season I believe ?

 

January

 

Thanks

 

With all the write up on him i assumed he has joined already.....His wife wears the trousers in his house making him leave DC united....

 

I think this will be a defeat as it's away and the team and manager are still finding their feet... 1 - 0

 

We could be onto a bit of a thrashing here lads, sorry!..............

 

Well put. Got no gut feeling on this one. Watched a bit of Huddersfield v Derby on Monday night. Derby were deserved winners, but Mason Mount is back at Chelsea and Rooney hasn't arrived yet, haha.

1-0 to Derby? Because they're at home...

 

Had enough of dining with Donald and Melania perhaps?

 

Was wondering if something like this would actually work to watch games, I’d happily pay for a season pass of SwansTv, but don’t want to fork out if there’s no chance of it working...feel free to direct message me, if this should be on the board
https://www.vpncompare.co.uk/unblock-watch-swanstv-wales-uk-ireland/

 

It depends on how you pay for one thing. Any card will be registered in the UK. I doubt they'll take bitcoin!

Also, they'll possibly employ some third party filtering of IPs known to be used by VPN companies. The BBC are a PITA for this and that's just UK VPN IPs... and I'm in the UK - arseholes. My VPN provider is adding UK IPs all the time so I can get around this particular problem.

 

Playing a probable top six side away from home, expectations are not high, but hope is certainly there for me. Anything can happen in these early games so I am feeling positive.