Swansea City News, Match Reports & Academy
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An entertaining 4-2 PDL Cup win at Landore today against our rivals Cardiff City. There may be times this season when our U18 won’t be able to score enough to offset the number of goals they insist on chucking into their own net, but today was satisfying. Team formation was 3-4-2-1: Kit Margetson; Arthur Parker, …
A 3-1 defeat today for our U18 sounds a convincing loss. Sheffield Wednesday deserved their victory overall, but our team shouldn’t be disheartened. This is a very young U18 side this season. We’ve lost a number of last season’s key players, rightly promoted upwards, we were missing a couple more through injury (notably Yori Griffith) …
A commanding performance, not wholly fluent to begin with, but we completely dominated the final 3rd of the game and should have scored a hatful of goals. As it was, Crewe were fortunate to get away with conceding just the 4 and somehow managed to get themselves a consolation in the dying seconds to go …
A somewhat fortunate 2-1 win for our U18 side today against a Peterborough side that dominated long spells of the game. A year or two makes such a difference at this level – Peterborough looked a little more mature as a group and we fielded a very young side, who will have learned a lot …
The U21 won this evening 7-1. 2-1 at HT but ran a tired side ragged after an hour. Could’ve easily been double figures. In fairness, the Penybont keeper performed wonders. Very pleasing outing with lots of good exposure for our youngsters. I’ll be a bit more specific once I’ve totted things up! Tricky to follow, …
Here in blustery and rainy Carmarthen, it was a performance to cheer the soul. Our U21 won 4-0, it could’ve been far more, but that’s not important. What was most important is that we played a fluent attacking game and one that the players clearly thrive on. We were 4 up by half-time, Carmarthen were …
An entertaining game in which our very youthful U18 side took on their Briton Ferry Llansawel equivalents at Llandarcy Park, winning 3-0. Free entry, no teamsheet. Lots of substitutions and fair number of new faces, but I believe the following line-up and changes are right – with some credit to Jack Chapman and the injured …
Cymru drew 2-2 in the return game this afternoon. The cooler weather suited both sides. Sweden edged 2-1 ahead before half-time with 2 very good goals by right winger Agbonifo and after Cardiff’s Japhet Matondo had initially put the home side 1 up on 9 minutes with a speculative cross cum shot. Lewis Koumas got …
Fairly uneventful friendly at Leckwith this evening, resulting in a 1-0 defeat. The mass substitutions probably didn’t help, although there was very little pattern to Wales’s play. It was almost as if coach Rob Edwards (ex Bristol City) didn’t quite know how to use the players at his disposal. Liverpool’s Lewis Koumas – son of …
Another highly entertaining game at Landore. It was Darren Davies’s last in charge and a fitting farewell. After going 3-1 down just before half-time to a bright Wigan side, our U18 got an immediate riposte and then scored a further 5 goals to finish 7-3 winners. Our line-up in a familiar 3-4-1-2 formation: Kit Margetson; Arthur …