Swansea City come from 3 goals down to grab a sensational draw at Coventry City in the Championship.
With the hosts leading 3-0 after just 54 minutes, things looked bleak for Russell Martin’s men, but the introduction Ollie Cooper, Joe Allen, Armstrong Oko-Flex, Harry Darling and Liam Cullen changed the complexion of the game.
Goals from Joel Piroe, Jay Fulton and Liam Cullen in the space of 22 minutes gave the Swans a share of the spoils when in reality, they’d looked well beaten for the first hour.
Despite the remarkable turnaround, the Swans manager pulled no punches in his post-match interview:
So the energy at the top end of the pitch, the willingness to run and sacrifice yourself to make space for others, and the reaction to losing the ball – all stuff we have worked on – was nowhere near acceptable.
The lack of physical contact, the lack of aggression in transition was a reason why they came away with so many counter-attacks, and Steven Benda had to come to the rescue for us.
That is nowhere near acceptable for this group. Conceding from a set-piece is a disgrace with the amount of work we have done with them on that area.
We have gone behind in too many games recently and in a lot of those games it has been to a set-piece, and when I look at the work (set-piece coach) Andy Parslow does and the detail he puts in on the grass and in the video room, then it is a mentality thing.
The players have all the detail in the world, and a guy gets a free header and scores. That’s unacceptable.
Russell Martin
The 1,206 Jacks at Coventry will no doubt have been delighted at the way the Swans fought back, but clearly there is still plenty for a frustrated Russell Martin to work on with his squad given his reaction to the game.
Martin reacts to draw at Coventry
Here is what Russell Martin had to say in his post-match press conference after the Swans drew at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
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