Rochdale 0 Swansea 2
Tuesday, 10th Aug 2004 00:00

Nugent Leads From The Front

Swans players celebrate their opening goal

Brilliant view on the halfway line and the whole of the stand allocated to Swans fans. The shape of things to come next year as it was 15 squid to get in. I couldn't fault any of the players tonight. Gueret did exactly the same as Saturday and took the ball out of the area with ball in hand. But, he was dominant in the box and made some great saves and his punching was excellent. I was impressed. The back four were quite solid, Austin's first half display was second to none. O'Leary seemed to relish his midfield position and had a great game. Even Leon played off him better than Saturday enjoying a more central role. Forbes looked hungry on the right and provided the pin point cross for Nugents goal and Robinson caused plenty of problems on the left as usual. Nugent and Connor were a handful up front. Monk and Tate look a good solid pairing and Izzy may have to fight for the right. The first half we gave 100% and all credit there. Rochdale were a little unlucky to lose 2 key players early on.	ROCHDALE
	Edwards
	Burgess
	Evans
	Goodall
	Heald
	Bertos
	Brisco
	McCourt
	Warner
	Holt
	Townson
	SWANSEA
	Gueret
	Austin
	Monk
	Ricketts
	Tate
	Britton
	Forbes
	O'Leary
	Robinson
	Connor
	Nugent
	REFEREE
	A Penn
	ATTENDANCE
	2,514

Goals	It was the sort of game you just knew we were going to win. Second half we were second best for the first 10 minutes, defending but defending well. The socond goal came at the end of a period of pressure. Robinsons shot from the left hit the inside of the near post like a bullet and nearly took Edwards' head off on the way in. The celebrations said it all. There was a mass pile up of Swansea players celebrating and you could see the team spirit is at it's best. There was no way back for the Dale and if we had taken our chances in the first half the score could easily have been 4 or 5. I would give everyone at least an 8 but a couple of 9's to Monk and Tate. and an 8.5 to Austin and O'Leary.
Rochdale
None
Swansea
Nugent 21
Robinson 61
Card Count
Booked
Rochdale
Goodall 20
Swansea
Tate 71
Sent Off
Rochdale
None
Swansea
None
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