Swansea V City post match thread

Swansea is fast becoming one of my favourite away trips.

Tough game but made tougher than it should have been due to the number of opportunities City spurned and a terrible little patch of play where we allowed them to equalise relatively quickly.

Pep changed things around a bit at HT and made us more effective but shoehorning KDB, Merlin and Gun Dog into same side will need some working on. Thought Nolito was a bit of a miss today.

The pressing is still a work in progress and we need to stop losing the ball as often before we get to the final third but this for me is a season of transition so the results Pep has achieved so far are continuing cause for optimism.

Had a great view of the penalty incident and thought their defender was lucky not to get a red card.

Sterling my MotM, his movement was excellent, you could see him swap channels in way Pep wants, and his goal was sublimely taken.

The team should take huge confidence into another big week.
 
Great win, full credit to swans for playing well and being the best side we played so far. For a couple of weeks i had a feeling we can do 10 out of 10 in pl and we are on course.
 
Lucky win bit will take any day. It could have gone either way at 1-1, and Silva messing about in his own Penalty Area just before they scored was very frustrating.

There were too many risk taken at the back then the ball just launched anyway. Fabianski was very odd for the third, "look at all this space, shoot into it".
 
Corky said:
Lucky win bit will take any day. It could have gone either way at 1-1, and Silva messing about in his own Penalty Area just before they scored was very frustrating.

There were too many risk taken at the back then the ball just launched anyway. Fabianski was very odd for the third, "look at all this space, shoot into it".
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You view of the Sterling goal is at odds with every report I have seen and heard. Indeed even the much maligned Danny Mills was raving about it ;-)
 
Not our best first half performance, but the genius that is Josep Guardiola switched KdB and Merlin at half time and the players seemed to find another gear and Swansea had no answer.

Definite penalty. If Mick McManus had done that to Les Kellet in the '70s, it would have been hailed as a great forearm smash. FWIW, John Cross on 606 thought it was a penalty.
 
Peggy's a blue said:
You view of the Sterling goal is at odds with every report I have seen and heard. Indeed even the much maligned Danny Mills was raving about it ;-)
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Totally agree. It isn't the easiest thing in the world for a 'keeper to get his bearings with a player like Sterling bearing down on him and Kun in the middle unmarked. He didn't even give the 'keeper the eyes, just bamboozled the defender and passed it in the near post.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Not our best first half performance, but the genius that is Josep Guardiola switched KdB and Merlin at half time and the players seemed to find another gear and Swansea had no answer.

Definite penalty. If Mick McManus had done that to Les Kellet in the '70s, it would have been hailed as a great forearm smash. FWIW, John Cross on 606 thought it was a penalty.
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Lol, I remember them! If Aguero had done that it would've been trial by Sky and a 3 match ban.. Oh wait!!!!
 
Thankful for the 3 points but Pep seemed to want to shove all the attacking players into the pitch and for the first half didn't seem to be working
 
Peggy's a blue said:
You view of the Sterling goal is at odds with every report I have seen and heard. Indeed even the much maligned Danny Mills was raving about it ;-)
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The keeper was tight to his left post initially even though Sterling was to his right, the keeper did move right eventually but still left a big gap.

The finish had similarities to the one versus Hart in the 3-2 2013/14.
 
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