Swansea City vs Sheffield United

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Championship Week 2 - Saturday 14th August 2021 - 20:00 - Liberty Stadium

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Referee: Keith Stroud
Assistant Referee: Ian Cooper
Assistant Referee: Sam Lewis
Fourth Official: Sam Allison

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[SUFCinks]

midfield is absent, no attacking intent. same as last year but a league lower. Early days but the signs arent great.

 

[robbiez666]

Well, pretty poor. Not convinced by this formation. Brewster and Burke looking dangerous down the flanks but not much end product. Robinson needs to cut the silly fouls out. Top 6 Premier League midfielder Berge has been terrible (just like the first 45 minutes of last game). He's so slow to make a decision on the ball and too weak to hold on to it. Norwood not much better but at least spreading a few balls and some decent set-pieces.

Swansea are fair poor so far. Thankfully they seem utterly clueless every time they move into the acres of space down our flanks. What formation are we playing because I can't work out whether Baldock is RB or RWB.

 

[Vass Borbokis]

Both utterly useless but I'd say Burke has been better brewster

Living up to your username

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

Our formation is like an 11 year old playing football manager. Aka putting 4 strikers on means more goals.

The midfield is continuing its appalling prior 12 months, poor with and without the ball

 

[Blade58]

Scapegoating again... They've all been shit brewster and sharp may as well be sat down

True but Burke is shit all the time whereas some of the others at least put a performance in now and again

 

[Drunk blade]

Starting to wonder if jokanovic is a patsy manager so the Prince can play real life fantasy football, no serious manager would pick this team and formation

 

[BangorBlade]

This is shocking, players don’t know where they are playing, Brewster coming deep almost to left back Sander doing nothing because he is so deep, Burke done nothing! Midfield (what midfield) Playing across and back.Slav looks bemused but he’s sent the team out to a stupid formation

Its like watching 11 players that havent played together before

 

[Working Class Hero]

What's Duffy doing these days?

It's becoming more and more apparent that our style of play when we were watchable was all him.

 

[Frank the tank]

That was fucking awful
Not the managers fault though for me ,the players are all shit scared of passing the ball forward so just keep recycling it

 

[Blade58]

At least he's running about, berge is fucking static

Berge has been poor tonight absolutely as a number of others have but I don’t agree that Burke has been running about. He walks most of the time.

 

[Drunk blade]

Living up to your username

Burke won us a corner, what did brewster do...

 

[Nagima]

When we are playing deep to knock it around at the back it means there is a increased distance from back to front and we dont have the midfield to bridge that gap by going box to box. The formation isn't working with the players being played and the majority of the players look off the pace.

 

[A Storm of Blades]

We’ve been crying out for creativity ever since Duffy was binned off by Wilder. The fact that this hasn’t been addressed in two years is criminal.

Fixed.

 

[JPSharpy93]

Not just Berge who goes missing, they all do. This team needs some life injecting. Why not start Bogle or RND…even Brunt? Someone whose wanting to make a name for themselves

 

[Drunk blade]

That was fucking awful
Not the managers fault though for me ,the players are all shit scared of passing the ball forward so just keep recycling it

The formation and team selection is like an 8 year old has picked it tho

 

[silver blade]

BBC SPORT

HALF-TIME​

Swansea City 0-0 Sheffield Utd
All-square at the break.
It's been entertaining enough, with Swansea on top throughout but failing to test Aaron Ramsdale in the Blades goal.
Sheffield United you feel can only get better. Their fans have had a long journey and haven't really been treated to anything to get excited about.
It's been a very un-Sheffield United performance so far - if that makes sense.
Will we see some changes to shake this one up I wonder?

 

[Cheesebored]

How easy are they getting in down their left hand side. The manager should be acting to do something about that. I reckon Bash has categorically shown he can play in a back four, if that's what it is!

 

[Bearlie]

Not just Berge who goes missing, they all do. This team needs some life injecting. Why not start Bogle or RND…even Brunt? Someone whose wanting to make a name for themselves

Most of them didn't cost 23 million quid

 

[ATL Recs]

This is a shadow of everything that should be Sheffield United chasing shadows at Swansea for god sake!

We’ve not won there for years

 

[Addison]

Team totally unbalanced with one left footed player in the starting eleven. Haven't got a clue where McG supposed to be playing neither does he. Berge and Norwood not showing for the ball when the back four have it. Only threat ball over the top. Looks like a pre season game, where's the bite in midfield? Its so slow. Need changes in the middle.

 

[McGoaldrick]

I don’t even think it’s individual players’ faults - there’s just something off with the culture of the team. Too scared to step forward, snatching at shots, no pass and move, everything so slow. The choreography that wilder has drilled into them may have ruined them

 

[ATL Recs]

How easy are they getting in down their left hand side. The manager should be acting to do something about that. I reckon Bash has categorically shown he can play in a back four, if that's what it is!

Not against a bustling physical striker he hasn’t

 

[William Large]

Not one of these players are Slav’s, this is Wilders mess.

Yawn….. I’m sick of hearing ‘this is wilder’s mess’
Berge - international. Norwood - international etc, etc. They are more than capable of playing attacking, threatening football as was proven prior to last season. The system / formation is not working. That is not wilders fault as much as some people are dying to blame him for everything.

 

[CurseofOnuora]

Zac Brunt one of the best players in the week....bit of midfield dynamism. Not even on the fucking bench tonight. Jesus wept

 

[BangorBlade]

Midfield is obsolete at the moment, I'd rather go 3-5-2 and try taking the midfield back

 

[BrayfordsBushyBeard]

I agree , I would start RND and Brunt

 

[Vass Borbokis]

Burke won us a corner, what did brewster do...

And that's an achievement?
We've more chance of scoring from a throw in near our own corner flag over a corner.
Brewster has been showing for the ball, won us a free kick in a dangerous place (where sharp fluffed his header from) played a good ball through to mcgoldrick who gave the free kick away. Nearly got through on goal with a good run behind the defence from basham's long ball.
I'm watching the game sober so probably noticing things a little better than you pal.
Burke has won a corner from running into a defender.

 

[Chingo]

Our formation is like an 11 year old playing football manager. Aka putting 4 strikers on means more goals.

The midfield is continuing its appalling prior 12 months, poor with and without the ball

Maybe it’s that we don’t have a winger at the club (wilder again) and Slav is playing those two to try and get some width ?

 

[TJ blade]

What an absolute bag of shite we actually are!!

 

[coolasanidiot]

If you were Arsenal would you cough up 35 million for Sander?