Swansea City News, Match Reports & Academy
In-depth coverage of Swansea City Football Club across the 2021-2022 season, featuring first-team action, player transfers, academy match reports, and behind-the-scenes developments.
It may not avert a standard feeding frenzy, but my take on tonight’s game was that: We played pretty well overall and in the formation favoured by the first team. We made some calamitous mistakes at the most inopportune moments, costing us the game. Cardiff are not, by any stretch of the imagination, a good …
Ben Cabango has been named in Rob Page’s 28 man squad for the final World Cup qualifying games against Belarus and Belgium. Cymru will face Belarus on Saturday 13 November at 19:45 before facing group leaders Belgium on Tuesday 16 November at 19:45. Rob Page’s side are looking to secure second place in Group E …
The Swans eased to a 3-0 victory over Peterborough United this afternoon thanks to first half goals from Jake Bidwell, Joel Piroe and Olivier Ntcham to claim their fourth consecutive home win. The last time the Swans managed that feat was April 2019, when Graham Potter managed victories over Brentford, Middlesbrough, Stoke City and Rotherham …
Rich Williams has named a 20-player squad as Cymru U17s travel to Portugal for the 2022 UEFA #U17EURO Qualifying Round, including two players from the Swansea City academy. Williams’ side will face Ukraine on November 10, hosts Portugal on November 13 and finally Kazakhstan on November 16, as they look to reach the tournament’s Elite …
Last season under Steve Cooper, Jay Fulton started 34 league games for Swansea City, fast forward five months and the Scottish midfielder has only 3 starts to his name in the 14 Championship games played to date. Admittedly, the combative Scot missed the opening three games of the 2021/22 season due to receiving a straight …
It was another busy Saturday afternoon for the Swansea City loan players in the EFL. Oli Cooper once again started in midfield for Newport County in their thrilling 3-1 derby win at Bristol Rovers, to get new County boss James Rowberry off to the perfect start. It was Cooper’s 8 league start in 9 appearances …
Given it’s Swansea City and the fact that Birmingham were without a win in any of their last seven league games, it was perhaps inevitable that the Blues would beat Russell Martin’s side 2-1 at St. Andrew’s this afternoon. The Swans were missing Flynn Downes and Ben Cabango due to knocks picked up in the …
Russell Martin held a press conference this morning ahead of the Swans game at Birmingham City on Saturday. Buoyed by two excellent wins over Cardiff City and West Bromwich Albion during the past week, the Swans visit St. Andrew’s to face a Birmingham side who are winless in seven league games. The Blues also have …
Perhaps it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, but given the Swans fantastic come-from-behind win over 2nd placed West Bromwich Albion in the Championship last night, three Swans have made the Sky Bet Team of Midweek. Leading the team is our very own Russell Martin, with Joel Piroe up front ably supported by Jamie …
The international break appears to have worked wonders for Russell Martin’s Swansea team, as they recorded their second win in four days, after beating high flying West Bromwich Albion 2-1 at the Swansea dot come stadium. Despite gifting the visitors the lead after just 50 seconds, Karlan Grant’s fifth goal in as many games for …