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No shot at survival?

Here’s some light bedtime reading for Swans fans — a table showing the teams that took the fewest shots overall and had the fewest shots on target for each Premier League season of the “Enlightened Era” (2009-10 and onwards), when such records began: Season Shots

Swans 0 Brighton 1

NB There is little direct discussion of the Brighton game in this piece, but the fallout of that result prompted these thoughts Managers don’t get enough time. We hear this a lot in football, especially after a few sackings, and recent weeks have seen sackings.

Arsenal 2 Swans 1

It’s getting harder to write about Swansea’s performances as there are only so many ways of saying exactly the same things. You might as well pick another blog from this site at random where the Swans lost and read that instead; the issues aren’t really

Swans Midfield Mess Holds Ki To Progress

“The balance is slightly off because we’re a little bit heavier in midfield than we would like“. So says Paul Clement, and he’s right, and it’s causing Swansea more problems than might at first be obvious. Sometimes limitation is a good thing. Faced with so

Swans 1 Leicester 2 (& Man Utd)

It’s so frustrating watching Swansea City these days. The club’s identity has dissolved, eroded by too many managerial changes in too short a period of time, by too much botched transfer business, by a continued lack of succession planning, once the key principle behind Swansea’s

Swans 2 Huddersfield 0

Funny how it’s always much easier to write about a defeat than a victory. Maybe it’s because criticism is more fun to read than praise (it’s definitely more fun to write), and while criticism of a losing team seems deserved, it looks like nit-picking when

A case for 4-4-2?

Paul Clement has had an extra week to figure out why his Swansea team are struggling ahead of Saturday’s home fixture against newly promoted Huddersfield Town. Swansea rightly have no place losing this fixture, and even a draw would be underwhelming, regardless of current form.

West Ham 1 Swans 0

Swans need to swap crosses and slow play for speed and short passes Remember that song? Pass and move (it’s the Liverpool groove)? How about Pass and stand far away (it’s the Swansea way)? In fairness, Swansea’s team movement showed improvement in Saturday’s annoying 1-0