Match Day Thread Swansea City v Bristol City

Swansea City v Bristol City

Competition - Sky Bet Championship
Date - 18 July 2020
Venue - Liberty Stadium
Kick off - 15.00

Following their hard fought 2-2 draw at Nottingham Forest, next up for Steve Cooper’s Swansea squad is a home match against Bristol City whose play-off hopes have now all but evaporated.

On Wednesday evening, Forest edged closer to sealing a Championship play-off place with a 2-2 draw that damaged Swansea’s top-six hopes.

Sammy Ameobi was Forest's hero as he twice struck from outside the box to equalise after Swansea had gone ahead.

Rhian Brewster's high-class finish gave Swansea an early lead, only for Ameobi to curl home his first leveller.

Andre Ayew's penalty made it 2-1 at the break before Ameobi's long-ranger earned Forest a point, with Swansea defender Kyle Naughton seeing red late on.

Sabri Lamouchi's team need a maximum of two points from their two remaining games - at Barnsley and at home to Stoke - to secure a first Championship play-off appearance since 2011.

In reality one more draw should be enough to get Forest over the line, given that their goal difference is considerably better than that of seventh-placed Millwall.

The Swans, who are three points behind sixth-placed Cardiff City, must look to win their last two fixtures - against Bristol City and Reading - and hope the Bluebirds and Millwall slip up.

Earlier the same evening, Danny Batth's second-half equaliser against managerless Bristol City edged Stoke City to the brink of Championship safety with a deserved draw at Ashton Gate.

The former Wolves centre-half scored his second goal in as many games with a far-post header that moved the Potters five points clear of the bottom three and up to 17th.

His close-range finish, which cancelled out Filip Benkovic's fine curling strike moments before half-time, all but ended Bristol City's hopes of reaching the play-offs.

The Robins, under the caretaker charge of Dean Holden, are now five points adrift of sixth-placed Cardiff City.

At the time of Johnson's departure it seemed as though their season was already over, only for back-to-back wins over Hull City and Middlesbrough to then throw them back into the mix.

However, despite Leicester City loanee Benkovic's strike putting them in the driving seat against Stoke, the away side's equaliser was a deserved one.

Turning to Saturday, nothing but victory will do for the Swans - and even that may not be eventually enough - and I’m going for a 3-1 home win

 

Good write up yet again Taff, well done.

 

Thanks Taff. Being a positive person as far as our team are concerned I think we will win our last home game of the regular season and then we wait for the last game to see if we qualify....in spite of clueless. Can’t understand why he waited until the 41st game of the season to try a new formation..

 

Cheers Victor

 

Thanks Azzuri

 

Let’s be positive, so going for a 3-1 win.

 

Two clear goals

Would be good to keep a clean sheet So it's 2-0 for me

 

I think they'll beat us.
Swans 0 - 1 Brizzle

 

lose this one as the players heads will be down , 1-2 , then again I'm always wrong

 

4 - 3.

 

It could be a win , ...... it could be a loss. ....... then again it could be

 

Worse write up you have done Taff.

4-0 Bristol City.

 

Used to like you ......

 

Another great write up Taff.
Thanks for taking the time

1-0 Swans

 

Must win for both sides, so that’ll cancel out an exciting 5-4. A draw will do neither side any good.

SWA 0-0 BRI

 

Even if we win we need Cardiff to lose and Millwall not to win to give us the advantage going in to Wednesdays final day. That’s 3 bits of luck and the odds of that happening are very steep against us especially now that we have lost Naughton as well. Will our players go for it in our last home game of the regular season. At least that would give us some cheer. We could be Hull though in total free fall....
Did hear on the grapevine that the new season starts middle of September....

 

WOULD YOU LIKE A NICE CUP OF TEA DEAR? AND A NICE SLICE OF BATTYBURG?

 

Can I have some of whatever you’re drinking please?