Match Day Thread Swansea City v Stoke City

Swansea City v Stoke City

Competition - Sky Bet Championship
Date - 5 October 2019
Kick off - 3.00pm
Venue - Liberty Stadium

Following their deserved 2-1 away victory over fellow promotion hopefuls Charlton, next up for Steve Cooper’s Swansea squad is a home match against bottom of the table Stoke City.

The Swans produced another top-drawer performance to beat Charlton and maintain their unbeaten away record with the victory meaning that they regained top spot in the Championship, with Andre Ayew scoring his first Swansea City league goal since May 2016.

The forward's 65th-minute strike sealed a comeback win for the Swans, after Charlton had gone ahead inside two minutes through Jonathan Leko, who drove home from 15 yards with the aid of a deflection.

Yan Dhanda levelled for Swansea with another deflected effort at the end of a bright passing move, before Ayew's close-range effort secured a sixth victory in 10 league games under Cooper.

Charlton could have few complaints as they failed to build on their impressive weekend win over Leeds United - only the second home defeat in the League in 12 months for Lee Bowyer’s team.

The previous evening, Juninho Bacuna cranked up the pressure on Stoke City manager Nathan Jones with a late winner for Huddersfield Town that leaves the Potters bottom of the Championship, without a league win in 16 games.

Jones conceded after the game that the owners had already given him "enough time" to "arrest the downward spiral", and went on to apologise for their poor form.

Bacuna, who was brought on as a substitute to give the Terriers a lift amid real Stoke pressure, handed new boss Danny Cowley his first victory and the club's first in 20 matches.

In a game of few clear-cut chances, he scampered forward, played a one-two with fellow sub Adama Diakhaby and smashed the ball past Adam Federici, who had replaced England goalkeeper Jack Butland.

It was a cruel sucker-punch for a Stoke side that had enjoyed the majority of possession, albeit without truly challenging Town keeper Kamil Grabara.

Since their first meeting on Christmas Day 1925, the Swans and Stoke have played each other on 72 occasions, with Swansea winning 23, Stoke winning 28 and 21 draws.

In the corresponding match last season, the Swans ran out 3-1 thanks to goals from James, VdH and Oli - Stoke had defenders Bruno Martins Indi and Tom Edwards both saw red for fouls on James.

Turning to Saturday, on paper a Top v Bottom match it is often all too easy to predict a win for the League leaders - particularly when they are at home.

That said, I have a feeling that, with Nathan Jones very much in ‘the last chance saloon’, his Stoke team (which could contain 3 former Jacks in Allen, Clucas and Carter-Vickers) will make life extremely difficult for Cooper’s men and will leave the Liberty with a point.

Although I’m hoping for another 3-1 victory over Stoke, I actually think it will be a 1-1 draw.

 

I'm guessing we should be expecting to win this game seeing how the respective seasons are going. I hope the team don't feel that way as Reading last week proves no game is nailed on as a win.

I'm going for 2-0 to the Swans on this.

 

What Stereo said. Banana skin special. Hope not. 5 - 1 Swans.

 

Nick has forecast 4-0 to the Swans on the Stoke Not606 Board

 

Who's Nick?

 

Tight game but one we will win 2-0

 

The main poster on the Stoke Board.

He’s Ex-Bedford RFC player

 

Remember the Sunderland game at home where we were odds on to win a couple of seasons ago as Sunderland were at the bottom and we were going great guns in the league......They thrashed us. The lads were far to complacent and paid the price that game.. We must be aware of that...

 

2-0 Swans

 

You must mean the game where Defoe scored three goals all which were offside along with a display of extreme
poor refereeing by a certain Graham Scott who sent off Kyle Naughton for a good challenge which we appealed against and won , we were shafted not thrashed, I know I was there

 

As was I !

Terrible officiating - Scott was terrible. Couldn’t get the red card out fast enough - I was sitting in front of a couple of Sunderland squad players - one said immediately ‘That’s never a red .....’

 

Totally off topic. What countries do these teams come from who are playing in the Europe League this evening?

a) Ludogorets
b) F91 Dudelange
c) RZ Pellets WAC
d) LASK
e) Oleksandria

 

a) Ludogorets Bulgaria
b) F91 Dudelange Luxemberg
c) RZ Pellets WAC Austria
d) LASK Austria
e) Oleksandria Ukraine

 

Show off ....

 

Stoke have not won so far, bottom of the league with only two points. This has got all the makings for their first win, if history is to be repeated as has happened in the past.

Still, let`s hope it`s not repeated and we get a win.

 

A few seasons ago whilst we were both in the PL, there was a survey done on what teams do each clubs fans hate the most. Apparently Stoke was the team most hated by the Swans fans......
Maybe it was because of all the diving and cheating that had gone on in recent meetings by the Stoke players ( Victor Moses etc)
I wonder if the feelings are still the same now ?

 

Hate is a such as strong emotion not worthy of expressing when describing Stoke, now if you had said carduff

 

Nervy 1st half but we will turn it on 2nd half so 2-0

 

Stoke City have won just six of their last 53 away games in all competitions (W6 D24 L23)

 

Ipswich hadn’t won in the League until 52 weeks ago this weekend...... they won 3-2 at ..... Swansea....... just saying