Match Day Thread Swansea City 0 v 1 Chelsea

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Swansea City v Chelsea

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Barclays Premier League
Date - 28 April 2018
Venue - Liberty Stadium
Kick off - 17.30


Following their gutless 0-5 defeat at the hands of Champions, Manchester City, the Swans' next match is at home to a Chelsea team fresh from securing a spot in this year's FA Cup Final where they will face Manchester United.

Although the Swans remain 4 points above the relegation zone, the manner of the defeat against City, following 2 draws, means that the Jack Army are now nervously looking over their shoulders at Stoke and Southampton where both teams are displaying a lot of heart and desire to try and dig themselves out of the drop zone.

These are the qualities that Carvalhal's team must display against Chelsea - a win would almost alleviate fears of relegation, whilst a point would at least raise spirits and hope.

If Carlos can get the team back fighting it out like he did against Liverpool and Arsenal, then anything is possible and the Swans could win. Perform like we did against Spurs (in the FA Cup) and City, and we will lose to Chelsea.

My heart says 1-1, my head says 0-3....

 

Excellent post,as always,thanks Taff.

I have absolutely no idea which way this will go.

 

Even when we were gaining points we weren't playing particularly well - good enough but not great.
Our performance against Everton was among the best for a few years - we got a point.
Who expected points from games against Man City and Chelsea?
Any point from these two games was always going to be a bonus.

 

A lot depends on which Chelsea tun up. I can forgive them for not giving 100% against Man City but I expect 110% in this game and can see us nicking a 1-0 win.

 

I'd say which Swansea side will turn up is nearer the mark

 

We'll draw 1-1

 

I would like to think 1-1 but I wouldn't bet on it

 

Play like yesterday and Hazard will rip us a new one on his own. Play like we are capable of and a point isn't out of the question.

 

0 - 3 im afraid but our performance has to be much better to give us some hope at Bournemouth.....Carlos has to get the players Motivated but i have lost all confidence in his ability, Hence my prediction...

 

Anything will be an improvement on the Citeh game, still not sure how this will go, think I'll go with my head and say a 1-2 Chelski win sorry!!........

 

We've got three home fixtures left, we should attack all three teams.
We've got Bournemouth away. We should attack them as well. They're not Real F****g Madrid.

Now is not the time for pussy footing around, playing negative, tepid, gutless football

 

Tell Carlos and the players that.....

 

Are you suggesting we should attack?

 

Well we cant park the bus can we, There is no point doing that against a team like Chelsea.....We must go forward and go for goal, We have done it before and we can do it again.....We surprised Liverpool and Arsenal who were expecting we would park the bus and we out foxed them both and we also went Forward against Everton and out played them and it was unfortunate we let in an own goal.... Parking the bus with just a few games to go will achieve nothing and we cant afford that....Chelsea will be hoping we do park the bus because they have players that can get past that bus and score.....We must go forward and get in their face and let the Ayew brothers and i hope Abraham do their job.

 

Fully agree. Throw the kitched sink and all out attack is the only way we'll get out of trouble.

 

We need to set up a 3-5-2 formation and play with some serious offensive desire, otherwise, we will get nothing from this game if we play 5 at the back and one upfront sitting back waiting to be picked off, fortune favours the brave and all that, time for Carlos to be brave again...........

 

We have been saying that for months.....Carlos is not good enough....

 

We

 

Who is this we? Most have not said that and you have said the same thing about every manager over the last few years with the exception of Monk who most thought was crap.