Match Day Thread Swansea City v Ipswich Town

Swansea City v Ipswich Town

Competition - Sky Bet Championship
Date - 6 October 2018
Kick Off - 3pm
Venue - Liberty Stadium

Following their battling performance in securing a point away at Wigan on Tuesday evening, next up for Graham Potter’s squad is a home fixture against struggling Ipswich Town.

Swansea moved into the Championship play-off places - albeit possibly for only 24 hours - despite being held to a goalless draw at Wigan.

Latics goalkeeper Christian Walton saved from Matt Grimes and Connor Roberts in the first half.

The home side did have chances after the break, with Will Grigg denied by Swans keeper Kristoffer Nordfeldt when through on goal.

Arguably the closest either side came was in the dying seconds, when Wigan's Chey Dunkley cleared off the line with Oli McBurnie ready to tap in.

Wigan are now unbeaten in 13 home league games, while Swansea's clean sheet is their sixth in 12 matches under Graham Potter.

Whilst the Swans were drawing with Wigan, Ipswich were losing at home to Middlesbrough with Stewart Downing rolling back the years to inspire Middlesbrough to a victory that saw them move into second place behind new Championship leaders Leeds.

The former England winger, now 34, scored Boro's second and was overall far too lively for an Ipswich side that has yet to win under new manager Paul Hurst, in any competition.

The defeat left Hurst, who left Shrewsbury in the summer to succeed Mick McCarthy, with no wins from 11 games and his side stuck in the relegation places.

The Swans have played Ipswich 29 times, winning 11, losing 9 and drawing 9.

Arguably the most important game between the two teams was the last match played, in April 2011 when Swansea secured their Championship play-off place as Fabio Borini's brace inspired the Welsh club's demolition of mid-table Ipswich Town.

The Italy under-21 striker smashed Swansea into the lead from inside the box before Stephen Dobbie teed-up Luke Moore to add a second from 20 yards.

Colin Healy struck Ipswich a long-range life-line before Borini restored the cushion with his sixth goal in seven.

A Scott Sinclair penalty sealed victory after Mark Kennedy fouled Leon Britton.

Turning to Saturday, Graham Potter - Swansea’s own Tinkerman - will be expecting 3 points against a side short on points and confidence. I am sure that he will ensure the Swans will not be complacent and I expect the Swans to win 3-1

 

We have a "nice-looking" run of fixtures coming up in October. If things go well, we could be top 3 or 4 by the end of the month?

 

Another excellent write up taff.Thanks

2-1 Swans.

 

Yes we'll done Taff. Please God it's got to be 2-0

 

3 - 0 home win....

 

2-0 Swans, without a shadow of doubt.

 

Draw away win at home keeps us in with a shout of going up, got the draw, hoping for the win, 2-1

 

I'm plumping for a 2 - 0 win as well.

Edit: Is plumping a word? It looks really weird now I look at it!

 

Yes I think its a Scrabble word but I believe you can get sent down for 2years for plumping in public

 

1 nil to us

 

Is is the same sentence for the plumper and the plumpee?

 

Now that depends on if it was a consenting plump !

 

Damned if we do Damned if we dont as i dont want promotion, It's a horrible situation....

 

Yep, me too, 3-0

 

Enjoy the game guys and lets hope for 3 points, I am off to watch Swansea uni V Pontadawe, so plenty of updates please.

 

From Wales Online :

• Swansea have failed to score in a league-high six different Championship games so far this season.

That is a terrible stat. We couldn't score in the PL and we are also failing at Championship level.
The sooner we get to see if Bony is the real deal again the better.

 

I won't be able to watch much if any of the match, but VIP reckon they have links :

https://www.vipbox.live/live-football

 

Leeds 1 Brentford 1 probably the best result for us. Asoro is on the bench; thought he had broken his leg.

 

I think we knew we'd struggle up front after the summer kull Stereo so, for me anyway, things in front of goal are panning out just as many of us predicted.

What has pleasantly surprised me has been our strength at the other end. We must have as many clean sheets as we've had goal-less games, I think, which is keeping us in the chase.

Given our lack of strikers I'm not too disappointed with the lack of goals but when you add everything up it comes to the one and only stat we need worry about and that's the points we have on the board and I'm happy with 17 right now. 20 would be nice after today and I'd take a 1-0 win for us.

Just a pesky rumor from my man-on-the-beach, just a rumor so take with a pinch, is that Bony keeps breaking down in rehab and needs further prolonged treatment so we wont see him this year.

 

Anyone with a linkypoo???