It was only just over a year ago, and that’s a frightening thought when you look at what has happened to the Swans since this game. The clubs decision making has reduced attendances by thousands, and it is likely we will see the third manager at the helm in seven months at the Swansea.Com.
Swansea fans are not happy with the current scenario.
We look back this morning on a good old fashioned fight back by Swansea City after going 3-0 down to their hosts in December 2022. In fact when the Swans started scoring with just twenty two minutes to go through Joel Piroe, Jay Fulton and Liam Cullen it looked like they would go on and win the game. Coventry were lucky to get out of the stadium with a point.
Watch the game here.
There’s a few faces missing from the Swans line up from last December. Joel Latibeaudiere will feature for the Sky Blues tonight if fit. Joel Piroe, Steven Benda, Ryan Manning, Joel Latibeaudiere and Olivier Ntcham are the five missing Swans in total. This game saw Swansea two passes shy of seven hundred passes with a 91% accuracy and 71% possession - this was the story of the Swans stats from the fixture.
What the managers said...
Coventry's Mark Robins: "We were really good for 68 minutes. We were 3-0 up and the game's won. When you run your legs out you start to get a little bit tired and then it's a case of 'do you make changes to score more goals or do you try to shut up shop?' But to shut up shop against them is difficult. We were 3-0 up and we started to go, 'well this is easy', and started to do things that were totally against what we normally do. It was a bit of naivety. There is some naivety in there because you have got three young players in the back line plus (Michael) Rosey and Jake Bidwell. To be 3-0 against them is outstanding but then to concede the three goals is like a real kick in the teeth. We kept throwing the ball out and trying to do things quickly as if we needed to score another one, and ultimately we just showed some naivety in terms of what we were doing. The game is cruel at times but you have got to keep possession of the ball and we didn't do that. We went backwards, gave the ball away and turned it over too often. But there's no getting away from it, we conceded three goals after the game should have been killed off. So it's disappointing and there's a lot of learning to come from it. But there's a lot of young players and we were naive."
Swansea's Russell Martin: "I'm battling how to feel about it really. I thought for half an hour we were incredible, brilliant, so I'm really grateful and proud for the last half an hour. But I'm really hurt for the first 60 minutes. The energy in the top third of the pitch, the willingness to run, to sacrifice yourself, the reaction to losing the ball, all the stuff we've worked on the last couple of weeks was nowhere near acceptable. The lack of physical contact, lack of aggression in transition is why they came away with so many counter-attacks and Steven (Benda) came to the rescue. To then concede from a set-piece is, being honest, a disgrace. We've gone behind in too many games in the last seven and in a lot of those games conceded a set-piece. Today we end up with 17 shots each, it's far too many. That's mentality, they have all the detail in the world and the guy gets a free header and scores. That's unacceptable. I saw some stuff in the first half I did not like one bit. Passes that they know how I feel about them, it's not helping your team-mate, not hurting the opposition. I don't know where it came from."