| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread 12:29 - Jan 1 with 9387 views | ModeratorC |
 Big match report : Swans let it slip again at Millwall 4th Jan 2026 18:31It happens a lot would be the recollection from the Sheehan era. Unfortunately It still happens is the comment on Vitor Matos’s stewardship to date. And that’s conceding goals at the end of games and halves. Having got themselves into a position to take a point away from the New Den an added time winner from Millwall undone all the Swans hard work.  0
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 19:04 - Jan 4 with 1710 views | Landore_Jack |
All game we struggled to stop crosses and deal with balls into the box. [Post edited 4 Jan 19:04]
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 19:23 - Jan 4 with 1633 views | Fireboy2 |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 19:04 - Jan 4 by Landore_Jack |
All game we struggled to stop crosses and deal with balls into the box. [Post edited 4 Jan 19:04]
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 20:11 - Jan 4 with 1496 views | SgorioFruit |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 17:30 - Jan 4 by Fireboy2 |
Yep its strange, he lost his marbles recently, used to post decently, now how just moans all the time, I wonder if hes been taking lessons off someone 🤔 |
Lost my marbles only recently? You obviously never saw my posts from 15 years ago then :)
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SGORIOFRUIT OUT!!! |  |
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 20:30 - Jan 4 with 1438 views | Fireboy2 |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 20:11 - Jan 4 by SgorioFruit |
Lost my marbles only recently? You obviously never saw my posts from 15 years ago then :)
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SGORIOFRUIT OUT!!! |
Its only recently where you have gone off tangent IMHO 😪
Btw i never frequented forums 15 years ago, I was helping brimg tbe kids up 🙄 [Post edited 4 Jan 20:31]
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 20:43 - Jan 4 with 1401 views | KeithHaynes |
One thing that surprised me today was how quickly Ronald has returned from Thursday's injury. General feeling was he was out. |  |
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 21:52 - Jan 4 with 1251 views | RichardO |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 20:43 - Jan 4 by KeithHaynes |
One thing that surprised me today was how quickly Ronald has returned from Thursday's injury. General feeling was he was out. |
Did we lose the threat on the right wing after he was substituted. One of those games where maybe we should have stuck will the 11 who had got us on top a little longer, waited to see their reaction and substitutions and then counter them. We changed when we had got on top, they changed after we had made 4 of our substitutions. So their starting 11 players would have been just as tried as our starting 11.Cooper when he first was manager with us you could synchronise your watch with the times he made his changes which he had seemingly decided on before a ball was kicked, I suppose we have to give Matos some leeway in the substitutions as most have worked in our favour and given the injuries we have but then again a whole week until the next game and it's a cup game at that so even longer until a league game.
You win some and you lose some on the first half performance we were well under the cosh, we came out to wrestle control of the game but did we give it up too easily.
Relatively good set of Christmas period results hope we can improve on them. [Post edited 5 Jan 9:08]
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 22:39 - Jan 4 with 1157 views | max936 |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 21:52 - Jan 4 by RichardO |
Did we lose the threat on the right wing after he was substituted. One of those games where maybe we should have stuck will the 11 who had got us on top a little longer, waited to see their reaction and substitutions and then counter them. We changed when we had got on top, they changed after we had made 4 of our substitutions. So their starting 11 players would have been just as tried as our starting 11.Cooper when he first was manager with us you could synchronise your watch with the times he made his changes which he had seemingly decided on before a ball was kicked, I suppose we have to give Matos some leeway in the substitutions as most have worked in our favour and given the injuries we have but then again a whole week until the next game and it's a cup game at that so even longer until a league game.
You win some and you lose some on the first half performance we were well under the cosh, we came out to wrestle control of the game but did we give it up too easily.
Relatively good set of Christmas period results hope we can improve on them. [Post edited 5 Jan 9:08]
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The honest truth for me is that we were lucky to still be in the game at H/T, Vigouroux miraculously kept us in it with some world class saves. |  |
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 06:05 - Jan 5 with 937 views | Whiterockin |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 22:39 - Jan 4 by max936 |
The honest truth for me is that we were lucky to still be in the game at H/T, Vigouroux miraculously kept us in it with some world class saves. |
Agree entirely. The biggest disappointment for me was Millwall seemed streets ahead of us in all areas. I know we have a couple of injuries but not many and all clubs will struggle with fixtures at this time of the year. Our squad is just not good enough for the top end of the championship, there is to big a gap between our starting 11 and the cover. Some of the players that have been brought in show good flashes but more often than not are poor Inoussa as an example. It's one game though and we have been making progress so hopefully Matos can tighten up the squad. [Post edited 5 Jan 6:07]
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 09:02 - Jan 5 with 832 views | OptimisticJack |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 22:39 - Jan 4 by max936 |
The honest truth for me is that we were lucky to still be in the game at H/T, Vigouroux miraculously kept us in it with some world class saves. |
Agree absolutely.
I was at the match yesterday and as were all the Swans fans had a good view of all his saves.
So many.
Probably one of the best goalkeeping heroics that I have seen for a very long time.
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 12:53 - Jan 5 with 660 views | Legend83 |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 09:02 - Jan 5 by OptimisticJack |
Agree absolutely.
I was at the match yesterday and as were all the Swans fans had a good view of all his saves.
So many.
Probably one of the best goalkeeping heroics that I have seen for a very long time.
Take a bow son YJB |
After some absolutely ridiculous saves he will probably disappointed to not have pushed the winner round the post - it was a very good firm header that bounced in front of him but still. | | | |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 13:06 - Jan 5 with 643 views | streetlyjack |
Extremely frustrating but no complaints about the result yesterday, Milwall deserved to take the points, my key takes from the game were:
- We always struggle against big physical teams, our players and style are not a good fit to deal with a constant flurry of balls in the box or over the top.
- Allowed far too many crosses into the box (33 in total I think), the coaches will have known this was coming but we just could not cope with it yesterday on either side.
- That was the best display of shot stopping I have seen for a very long time from Vig, simply oustanding glovework.
- Seemed more like an American football game with their centre halves spending more time in our box than their own with set play after set play being launched at us.
- Milwall generally looked a yard sharper than us all over the park.
- Not that impressed so far with what I have seen from Samuels, doesn't seem too dynamic IMO however a tough game to be parachuted into.
- Vipotnik was invisible yesterday, needed to be physical but made no mark on their centre halves all game?
- Route one football is definitely making a comeback so our coaching team needs to evolve things again to deal with this old/new way of playing.
- Ronald needs to practice his diving more, some lame dives again yesterday when he would have been better staying on his feet whe past his marker.
In spite of the loss I am still positive for what the rest of the season holds, at least we now have a manager who can see the value in setting up teams / tactics to suit each fixture rather than a copy and past routine for each game which is something we have been missing for a while..... | |
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 13:34 - Jan 5 with 598 views | jack247 |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 13:06 - Jan 5 by streetlyjack |
Extremely frustrating but no complaints about the result yesterday, Milwall deserved to take the points, my key takes from the game were:
- We always struggle against big physical teams, our players and style are not a good fit to deal with a constant flurry of balls in the box or over the top.
- Allowed far too many crosses into the box (33 in total I think), the coaches will have known this was coming but we just could not cope with it yesterday on either side.
- That was the best display of shot stopping I have seen for a very long time from Vig, simply oustanding glovework.
- Seemed more like an American football game with their centre halves spending more time in our box than their own with set play after set play being launched at us.
- Milwall generally looked a yard sharper than us all over the park.
- Not that impressed so far with what I have seen from Samuels, doesn't seem too dynamic IMO however a tough game to be parachuted into.
- Vipotnik was invisible yesterday, needed to be physical but made no mark on their centre halves all game?
- Route one football is definitely making a comeback so our coaching team needs to evolve things again to deal with this old/new way of playing.
- Ronald needs to practice his diving more, some lame dives again yesterday when he would have been better staying on his feet whe past his marker.
In spite of the loss I am still positive for what the rest of the season holds, at least we now have a manager who can see the value in setting up teams / tactics to suit each fixture rather than a copy and past routine for each game which is something we have been missing for a while..... |
On the Samuels point, there was a point early in the second half where we’d equalised and were on top.
Without Tymon on the pitch though, all our attacks went down our right and weren’t that hard to defend in the box.
As much as Milwall should have been out of sight by half time, I do think we could have got another if we’d been able to attack them from both sides. We were actually quite dominant, albeit for a short period.
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 14:50 - Jan 5 with 510 views | Whiterockin |
Samuels-Smith doesn't cut it for me the couple of times I have seen him play | | | |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 16:43 - Jan 5 with 420 views | ncswan |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 14:50 - Jan 5 by Whiterockin |
Samuels-Smith doesn't cut it for me the couple of times I have seen him play |
From what I could tell, it looked like he gives up too much space and doesn't have great anticipation. Are these things correctable? | | | |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 16:49 - Jan 5 with 409 views | Whiterockin |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 16:43 - Jan 5 by ncswan |
From what I could tell, it looked like he gives up too much space and doesn't have great anticipation. Are these things correctable? |
I just feel he doesn't have awareness and is caught out of position to often, he doesn't know when to go and when to stay. He is young and here to learn but I can understand why he doesn't get many games. | | | |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 08:37 - Jan 6 with 224 views | RichardO |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 16:49 - Jan 5 by Whiterockin |
I just feel he doesn't have awareness and is caught out of position to often, he doesn't know when to go and when to stay. He is young and here to learn but I can understand why he doesn't get many games. |
Think we are comparing him against Tymon ,whose attacking threat we all know about and the quality of Tymon's defending has improved under Matos, Tymon sitting just that little bit deeper but closer to the winger cutting out a lot of balls to feet, having Eom tracking back has helped Tymon when the winger has had balls to feet but in the last few games Eom has been tricked too easily which have resulted in dangerous situations in the box.
Against Millwall we seemed to struggle defensively on the left but faired ok on the right in that first half, rallied in the second half but then the changes made us weaker on the right and stronger on the left.
Samuel-Smith is young and has shown promise but that first half we weren't effective enough as a team and didn't get the marking right to prevent the supply of crosses. Was it a case for the second goal of no-one was in front of the first man which allowed them to easily play the ball back to the player taking the throw in, giving them time unchallenged to put the dangerous cross with no-one in a position to stop it .
Inexperience in the team Samuel-Smith on the left, Inoussa on the right either way, was it a case of adjustment made at half time eased our problems but the changes later introduced others.
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Did we just leave ourselves open by trying to go in search of a winner, we have been suckered punched by Millwall late in the game before when we went in search of the three points at home.
Sheehan didn't have time to sort out the problems of such an inexperienced squad but hopefully Matos has the time and the know how to sort things out. | | | |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 09:24 - Jan 6 with 194 views | Whiterockin |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 08:37 - Jan 6 by RichardO |
Think we are comparing him against Tymon ,whose attacking threat we all know about and the quality of Tymon's defending has improved under Matos, Tymon sitting just that little bit deeper but closer to the winger cutting out a lot of balls to feet, having Eom tracking back has helped Tymon when the winger has had balls to feet but in the last few games Eom has been tricked too easily which have resulted in dangerous situations in the box.
Against Millwall we seemed to struggle defensively on the left but faired ok on the right in that first half, rallied in the second half but then the changes made us weaker on the right and stronger on the left.
Samuel-Smith is young and has shown promise but that first half we weren't effective enough as a team and didn't get the marking right to prevent the supply of crosses. Was it a case for the second goal of no-one was in front of the first man which allowed them to easily play the ball back to the player taking the throw in, giving them time unchallenged to put the dangerous cross with no-one in a position to stop it .
Inexperience in the team Samuel-Smith on the left, Inoussa on the right either way, was it a case of adjustment made at half time eased our problems but the changes later introduced others.
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Did we just leave ourselves open by trying to go in search of a winner, we have been suckered punched by Millwall late in the game before when we went in search of the three points at home.
Sheehan didn't have time to sort out the problems of such an inexperienced squad but hopefully Matos has the time and the know how to sort things out. |
I am not comparing Samuels-Smith to Tymon just purely on his ability/performances. As I say he is young and needs to learn but currently he is poor. As apposed to Casey who in my opinion is a far better defender albeit in a different position and no I am not comparing Casey to Cabango and Burgess. | | | |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 09:53 - Jan 6 with 162 views | vetchonian |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 08:37 - Jan 6 by RichardO |
Think we are comparing him against Tymon ,whose attacking threat we all know about and the quality of Tymon's defending has improved under Matos, Tymon sitting just that little bit deeper but closer to the winger cutting out a lot of balls to feet, having Eom tracking back has helped Tymon when the winger has had balls to feet but in the last few games Eom has been tricked too easily which have resulted in dangerous situations in the box.
Against Millwall we seemed to struggle defensively on the left but faired ok on the right in that first half, rallied in the second half but then the changes made us weaker on the right and stronger on the left.
Samuel-Smith is young and has shown promise but that first half we weren't effective enough as a team and didn't get the marking right to prevent the supply of crosses. Was it a case for the second goal of no-one was in front of the first man which allowed them to easily play the ball back to the player taking the throw in, giving them time unchallenged to put the dangerous cross with no-one in a position to stop it .
Inexperience in the team Samuel-Smith on the left, Inoussa on the right either way, was it a case of adjustment made at half time eased our problems but the changes later introduced others.
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Did we just leave ourselves open by trying to go in search of a winner, we have been suckered punched by Millwall late in the game before when we went in search of the three points at home.
Sheehan didn't have time to sort out the problems of such an inexperienced squad but hopefully Matos has the time and the know how to sort things out. |
Sheehan didnt have the know how. whislt he did a great job rallying the troops at rhe end of last season his preseason and our matches showed unfortuneatly he was not head coach material | |
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| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 10:23 - Jan 6 with 141 views | RichardO |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 09:24 - Jan 6 by Whiterockin |
I am not comparing Samuels-Smith to Tymon just purely on his ability/performances. As I say he is young and needs to learn but currently he is poor. As apposed to Casey who in my opinion is a far better defender albeit in a different position and no I am not comparing Casey to Cabango and Burgess. |
Have to agree Casey looks a better prospect than Samuel-Smith but I would question the bench mark used for these players surely it must be how they fit in to the team they are playing in and whether they improve it , both players are young and both have made mistakes but earlier this season Tymon defending has been questioned, as has Carbango and Burgess. That first half was atrocious that wasn't down to one player it is about the team functioning properly to negate the threat they are up against and to provide one.
I'm not a fan of developing other teams youngsters to iron out their problems I rather try our own before casting them away.
Hard to develop youngsters if the team is struggling and it is a hard league or standard to get up to speed in but we either use our own or lose them, 6 month time we could be without a couple of our own star players and where would we then, You could say we needed better quality youngsters given who we lost last season but can you keep to rely ing on others teams youngsters without developing your own. | | | |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 10:27 - Jan 6 with 139 views | Whiterockin |
| Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread on 10:23 - Jan 6 by RichardO |
Have to agree Casey looks a better prospect than Samuel-Smith but I would question the bench mark used for these players surely it must be how they fit in to the team they are playing in and whether they improve it , both players are young and both have made mistakes but earlier this season Tymon defending has been questioned, as has Carbango and Burgess. That first half was atrocious that wasn't down to one player it is about the team functioning properly to negate the threat they are up against and to provide one.
I'm not a fan of developing other teams youngsters to iron out their problems I rather try our own before casting them away.
Hard to develop youngsters if the team is struggling and it is a hard league or standard to get up to speed in but we either use our own or lose them, 6 month time we could be without a couple of our own star players and where would we then, You could say we needed better quality youngsters given who we lost last season but can you keep to rely ing on others teams youngsters without developing your own. |
I would expect Casey and Samuels-Smith to play on Sunday if their parent clubs give permission, unless Parker gets a run out. | | | |
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