Swansea City News, Match Reports & Academy
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No luck for the Swans in the first half – the Colchester keeper made a number of saves, including at least 3 from Cullen. The visitors broke away from our own attacking throw to score against naive defending. We weren’t as threatening in the 2nd half and our play petered out with additional young subs …
Back in Reading for a couple of days, so took a trip to Woking FC to see this PLC game. We went down to a narrow 1-0 defeat in a game with plenty of chances for both sides. Swans blooded more youngsters: Will Rickard & Ali Al-Hamadi started up front either side of Liam Cullen. …
Another heavy defeat for the youngsters, I’m afraid – and after a really open, encouraging first half in which they took the lead when Charlie Clancy converted a rebound past the keeper. Ali Al-Hamadi had his shot blocked in a 1 on 1 with the goalie soon after, but The Swans went into half-time ahead. …
The youngsters came close to achieving an unlikely win. Under the cosh for much of the first half, they went 1 up after 20 minutes when Al-Hamadi’s powerful run into the area was blocked by a foul, Rickard (I think) stepping up to convert the penalty. It got even better after an hour when Rickard …
Our youngsters went ahead after 19 minutes when Bradley Gibbings burst through the middle to beat Leicester’s enormous keeper. Leicester equalised within 4 minutes and quickly went 3-1 up, including a debatable penalty. In truth, the visitors were far more incisive, their midfield captain, rangy early sub 14 & niggly centre forward cutting through our …
Lost 2-1 at Romford today after Josh Thomas put us one up in the 18th minute. West Ham equalised when a striker followed up Webb’s excellent penalty save. Webb then got beaten at the near post by an inswinging free kick. Swans had good possession 2nd half in very blustery conditions, but couldn’t find an …