| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm 17:20 - Aug 23 with 2858 views | SwansIndependent |
 Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm 23rd Aug 2026 17:19A point is a point, but that performance could have been considerably better. I have mixed feelings after the home debut; a draw at this stage of the Championship is still welcome, especially as everything seems volatile at the moment, but there were some worrying signs in this game that I don't want to see become a pattern.  1
Click above, it’s brilliant.
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 19:24 - Aug 23 with 2643 views | union_jack |
An excellent and accurate appraisal of the game yesterday backed up with detailed examples seen throughout the game. First class. |  |
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 19:28 - Aug 23 with 2636 views | KeithHaynes |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 19:24 - Aug 23 by union_jack |
An excellent and accurate appraisal of the game yesterday backed up with detailed examples seen throughout the game. First class. |
He’s a gem is our Olle. We will all be be over for the Norwich game, |  |
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 19:41 - Aug 23 with 2563 views | onehunglow |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 19:28 - Aug 23 by KeithHaynes |
He’s a gem is our Olle. We will all be be over for the Norwich game, |
Absolutely superb piece
He’s foreign too  | |
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 23:22 - Aug 23 with 2358 views | RichardO |
Plenty of good observations on the game, I must admit while I see a certain logic with Vigouroux looking for our wide players when we have a six foot plus centre forward why aren't we looking to change our point of attack, Vigouroux has a hell of a kick on him which we see him trying to have a deft touch with very limited success. With his kick we have seen balls travel the full length of the pitch might be worth trying to catch high sweeper goalies of their lines. Sounds a bit limited in approach but for most of the game the long throws and long goal kicks are being used extensively at all levels of the game Sheffield United did it, Birmingham did it just to stretch the game and get them up the pitch quicker and in numbers, causing issue for defenders.
We played so nice stuff of Saturday early on but Sheffield eventually stopped sitting back and we almost paid the price. In the second half they stifled our game until the last 10 minutes in which we did get more pressure on them winning a number of corners. | | | |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 23:35 - Aug 23 with 2345 views | JJBomber |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 19:28 - Aug 23 by KeithHaynes |
He’s a gem is our Olle. We will all be be over for the Norwich game, |
To see John Toshack? [Post edited 23 Aug 23:35]
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 01:41 - Aug 24 with 2274 views | ncswan |
Yes, a very well-written piece again, Olle!
You mentioned at the end of the "Poor in build-up" portion of the article, about the Sheff U's high press, "We will face more sides that press high, and we need to be better at playing through it". The same thing also happened in the 2nd half against Brum "turned up the heat" with their high press and it caused a lot of problems for the Swans. Good observation! | | | |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 23:15 - Aug 25 with 1802 views | Olle_Soderholm |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 01:41 - Aug 24 by ncswan |
Yes, a very well-written piece again, Olle!
You mentioned at the end of the "Poor in build-up" portion of the article, about the Sheff U's high press, "We will face more sides that press high, and we need to be better at playing through it". The same thing also happened in the 2nd half against Brum "turned up the heat" with their high press and it caused a lot of problems for the Swans. Good observation! |
Thank you for the kind words!
Yes, if we are to properly challenge for promotion we must be difficult to press high against. We ought to be a team that controls games and suffocates opponents, but 70% possession means way less if it isn't in dangerous areas. We can of course go long at times and switch it up depending on gamestate and opponent, but vs Sheffield we had no other options. Needs to be better. | |
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 04:42 - Aug 26 with 1710 views | ncswan |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 23:15 - Aug 25 by Olle_Soderholm |
Thank you for the kind words!
Yes, if we are to properly challenge for promotion we must be difficult to press high against. We ought to be a team that controls games and suffocates opponents, but 70% possession means way less if it isn't in dangerous areas. We can of course go long at times and switch it up depending on gamestate and opponent, but vs Sheffield we had no other options. Needs to be better. |
I agree! We sliced up Stoke but got stifled and snookered by Sheff U. I think that's why so many are upset with this past Saturday's result, especially after seeing our away performance against Stoke. | | | |
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 09:02 - Aug 26 with 1630 views | RichardO |
As we keep our wingers wide then support that width with either fullbacks or midfielders it leaves gaps in the middle and/or fullback areas which team look to exploit driving through the middle and committing more players forward the defending players get out numbered, often in the middle then the opposition get the balls quickly into the space left out wide to get telling crosses in
Under Matos we have greatly reduced teams ability to attack those areas keeping our fullbacks deeper and ensure little control is gained but when our tempo or press lessens becomes disjointed in the middle, Birmingham, Stoke and Sheffield tried to break our defence that way but and it is a big but they were mostly thwarted, Birmingham needing a set piece goal although it was on the back of a foul won by their change in tacticl, us not getting tight enough to runners .
We won against Stoke and wrestled back control late on against Sheffield but looked ineffectual at times up top. We saw in Luke Williams first full season at the start of the season we kept clean sheets but had very few goals then he went all Russell Martin on us and got virtually nothing.
I was going to post a new thread the following it is a bit of a waffle but has similar points mentioned.
What role do you see Stamenic playing this season....
I like what I see at times of Stamenic but it is a bit of a quandary as to where to play him, with us playing with three in the middle do we play him high or forward at the tip of a triangle and have workers and runners off him in attack mode while those runners do most of the defensive work. We have seen he has scored a small number of well taken goals and also be able to use any space given to turn allowing distribution though the middle of the park. I not saying he is as good as a Hoddle, Waddle, Brooking or Kennedy but does he have similar traits. That triangle must be to rotates to allow cover for forward runs while going forward at times two of the three to advance forward instead of our fullbacks.
At the moment we do seem to need our full backs to press on as we try to attack down the wings, I only watched the highlights of the Championship and caught one of Millwall's goal against Norwich it was classic counter attack Norwich kept their wingers out wide and were done through the middle by driving runs sucking the Norwich defence in and leaving the wingers with lots of space to get telling crosses in, how many times have we seen this happen against us but I don't think we do it quickly or well enough ourselves no target man in the high midfield trying to use the centre forward to drop too deep unable to get back up with play.
To be fair to Idah on one occasion the attack was on Yeo sped down wing but either did not see Idah busting a gut run or thought no-one else was in the box so wanted to keep possession although Idah was coming in behind all the defenders and a well hit pass would possibly taken out the four defenders out and leave Idah at the back post unmarked, a chance lost.
Variations on 4-3--3 or 4--4-2 at different points in games? | | | |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 15:28 - Aug 26 with 1496 views | KeithHaynes |
That’s such a good assessment. And what we are ll about. | |
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 15:48 - Aug 26 with 1460 views | onehunglow |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 04:42 - Aug 26 by ncswan |
I agree! We sliced up Stoke but got stifled and snookered by Sheff U. I think that's why so many are upset with this past Saturday's result, especially after seeing our away performance against Stoke. |
Well exactly
It’s not negativity to express concern no matter if it’s the only comments one makes
We were quite excited and we should remain so
We can do this
Win = praise
Lose / draw .= criticism | |
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| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 17:15 - Aug 26 with 1402 views | RichardO |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 15:48 - Aug 26 by onehunglow |
Well exactly
It’s not negativity to express concern no matter if it’s the only comments one makes
We were quite excited and we should remain so
We can do this
Win = praise
Lose / draw .= criticism |
Don't think we got snookered by Sheffield as they really only had a couple of chances late in the first half.Just as we could have done better earlier in the half maybe trying too hard holding onto the ball and not taking the right option, in the second half Sheffield may have had some pressure on us but did little if no damage and in the end we looked the team to get into better positions up the pitch. Both teams cancelling each other out. | | | |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 17:42 - Aug 26 with 1363 views | ncswan |
| Swansea City : The ‘Final Word’ on the Indy with Olle Söderholm on 15:48 - Aug 26 by onehunglow |
Well exactly
It’s not negativity to express concern no matter if it’s the only comments one makes
We were quite excited and we should remain so
We can do this
Win = praise
Lose / draw .= criticism |
If you re-read my post, then you'll see that I stated that I'm not one of those who's disgruntled with Matos, the team, or a Draw result. I am a little disappointed, however. There's probably a lot of factors involved here but the fans who seem to be most upset are the ones who are criticizing Matos' decision not to sub-in Walta. Just started the Sheff U game because Just started and played well enough in the Stoke game.
But if you look at his substitution decisions, then you'll understand that he went with Widell for Just at the same time he put in Key for the injured Cabango. Ross Stewart was his 5th and final substitute (for Fulton in the 87th min) because he probably believed that Stewart might conjure up a goal moreso than Walta. Of course, Vip and Eom were brought in for Idah and Yeo at the 57th min mark before Ben got hurt. In the end, Cabango's injury kept Walta from playing and I'm pretty sure that Matos would've played Walta if Cabango hadn't gotten injured. | | | |
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