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Swansea City 1 Charlton Athletic 3 – Under 23 Professional Development League

Not a very encouraging performance, particularly given the apparent strength of our starting eleven.  We opened promisingly enough – Dhanda and Morgan Whittaker each creating chances for themselves in the first 15 minutes. Then 2 avoidable goals in quick succession – the first on 19 minutes through playing in the wrong places.  Possession was lost on …

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Swansea City 0 Cardiff City 2 – Under 18 Professional Development League

We played a 4-3-3 formation that’s been tried before this season with mixed success. This meant we dominated the middle, but looked very lightweight up front. Cotterill, Congreve and Lloyd are very accomplished at this level and peppered the Cardiff goal with shots in the first half. This masked the fact that most of our moves broke down …

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Swansea City 0 Bristol City 2 – Under 18 Professional Development League

An entertaining game, but largely due to the performance of the visitors who, as the match progressed, dominated possession and created a host of chances. Fairly uneventful first half. We played 4-3-3 but struggled to get wingers Wilson and Hillier and centre forward Geoff Bony into the game.  Our first attempt on goal came almost …

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Swansea City 2 Charlton Athletic 4 – Under 23 Premier League Cup

The Under 23 were undone by conceding 3 cheap goals in 8 minutes to go into half-time 4-1 down. Liam Cullen had earlier claimed a fortunate equaliser when the Charlton keeper dithered over a clearance and kicked the ball straight at him. Poor defending had seen Swansea let experienced big striker Aneke score after just …

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