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The academy players are really worth a watch, very identifiable with what we are all getting used to this season.
I’ll post the link here in the morning.
Definitely worthy of a chat a long.
Preview.
Swansea City Under-23s welcome Sheffield Wednesday Under-23s to the Swansea.com Stadium for their Professional Development League fixture on Monday.
The young Swans play their third game at the Swansea.com Stadium this season, having won both of their previous games at the venue earlier this season.
Swansea go into the game on a two-game unbeaten run, having convincingly beaten Queens Park Rangers Under-23s before being held to a 0-0 draw at Oakwell.
The Swans return to action after a week with no fixtures due to the international break, with a number of Swansea academy players featuring for their nations over the break.
Sheffield Wednesday Under-23s come into the game off the back of a 1-0 defeat to Professional Development League south group leaders Ipswich Town Under-23s, having beaten rivals Sheffield United in the game previous.
Wednesday currently sit bottom of the north group, but have the chance to jump two places with a win in SA1.
Swansea City Under-23s coach Kris O’Leary: “The international break serves a purpose; we’ve got to look at the boys who have been away and played a lot of games in a short space of time so it’s certainly one for the squad to be utilised.
“It’s a great experience for the players and something that they obviously enjoy, I think anybody would enjoy playing at the stadium on that pitch and I know it’s something they look forward too.
“As always, the coaching team and all the staff have looked into them as a team and what they do, but we like to talk about ourselves and what we do and how we do it.
“We’ll input what we normally do and how we play to suit the opponent that we are playing.
“We’ve had a few younger lads away with Wales, when most of the teams in our league don’t have international call-ups.
“A lot of our team have trained with the first team to supplement them so they had a good week with them preparing for their game.”
Previous meeting
The two sides last met in Swansea Under-23s final game of last season, with the spoils shared in a 1-1 draw in Sheffield.
Ali Al-Hamadi fired the Swans ahead before Liam Waldock levelled after the break.
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A great believer in taking anything you like to wherever you want to.
Swans u23 v Sheff Weds u23 LIVE on here Today at 11.30am on 09:45 - Apr 4 by KeithHaynes
Kick off is an early one, looking forward to this.
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With us now being proud owners of a beautiful black Lab pup,we are up and at em at 6am to start her day with Nattural Instinct Chicken and Tripe. Looks good enough to lunch on with a Rioja tbh myself. Why is dog food dearer than human
Well, that went well, it’s free entry in to the stadium but the option of a stream, which I’m sure was suggested isn’t available. Anyone got a link ? If there is one.
A great believer in taking anything you like to wherever you want to.
Swans u23 v Sheff Weds u23 LIVE on here Today at 11.30am on 11:42 - Apr 4 by KeithHaynes
Well, that went well, it’s free entry in to the stadium but the option of a stream, which I’m sure was suggested isn’t available. Anyone got a link ? If there is one.
No idea why its not steamed, with all games filmed for analytical purposes ,can't too difficult , or can it .
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Swansea City Under-23s assistant coach Anthony Wright felt his side paid for some sloppy moments as they were held to a 2-2 draw against Sheffield Wednesday Under-23s.
Joe Thomas put the Swans ahead after just 11 minutes before a stunning strike from Tivonge Rushesha made it 2-0 before the break.
However, Liam Waldock pulled one back for Wednesday after the Swans failed to clear Ryan Galvin’s cross.
Ben Erickson was then stretchered off the field with 18 minutes of play remaining, and the visitors immediately capitalised, Bailey Cadamarteri finding the equaliser.
And Wright was frustrated that the Swans had relinquished the advantage given how comfortable they had been during the first half.
“I think as a group overall the players are a bit frustrated in the dressing room,” said Wright.
“It was such a good performance in the first half, obviously scoring two good goals and we should have scored a couple more.
“We were very comfortable first half, I thought we played some terrific stuff, and we’ve said to the boys it’s a learning curve for us because I think we’ve dominated the game so well and we’ve then allowed them back in the game through our sloppiness.
“For us as a group that’s something that we have to learn from and we will reflect on going forward.
“There’s loads of positives from the performance today, we were in control for large spells but we caused our own problems really.
“The two goals we have conceded we should be doing a lot better with defensively, and that’s from the front all the way to the back.
“It’s a development league, we know we are going to come up with these problems throughout our journey with these players, it’s just for us now as coaches to reflect with the group and with players individually and try to improve them and get them ready for the first team.
“The boys are frustrated, more with themselves than anything, as a young group we’ve allowed them to get back into the game today with being sloppy at times."
But Wright was pleased with how his players relished the chance to play at the Swansea.com Stadium again, and highlighted the performances of goalscorer Rushesha and Kai Ludvigsen as having stood out.
“We play here and the fans came out to watch and we wanted to showcase to them what we do as an academy, and that’s right the way through the system," Wright continued.
“It’s good for us that, when we are here, we are showing that we have good individual players and that we try our best to follow the first team as much as possible and I believe we do that really well.
“It was a terrific strike from Tivonge Rushesha, he’s got that in his locker, we’ve seen that a few times in training, so it’s great for him.
“I think it was a positive performance for Tivonge, he was really comfortable in possession. He picked the ball up just on the halfway line, beat one or two players, seen that gap open up for himself and it’s a terrific strike from 25 or 30 yards out.
“As coaches we all agreed that Kai Ludvigsen did really really well today, it’s his first time at the stadium and he hasn’t been overwhelmed by it, it was a comfortable performance and hopefully now he just grows from that.
“Kai has been with us this week and he’s going to be with us for the remainder of the season, he’ll be in with our group and hopefully he can improve with us.”
A great believer in taking anything you like to wherever you want to.
Swans u23 v Sheff Weds u23 LIVE on here Today at 11.30am on 17:32 - Apr 4 by KeithHaynes
Swansea City Under-23s assistant coach Anthony Wright felt his side paid for some sloppy moments as they were held to a 2-2 draw against Sheffield Wednesday Under-23s.
Joe Thomas put the Swans ahead after just 11 minutes before a stunning strike from Tivonge Rushesha made it 2-0 before the break.
However, Liam Waldock pulled one back for Wednesday after the Swans failed to clear Ryan Galvin’s cross.
Ben Erickson was then stretchered off the field with 18 minutes of play remaining, and the visitors immediately capitalised, Bailey Cadamarteri finding the equaliser.
And Wright was frustrated that the Swans had relinquished the advantage given how comfortable they had been during the first half.
“I think as a group overall the players are a bit frustrated in the dressing room,” said Wright.
“It was such a good performance in the first half, obviously scoring two good goals and we should have scored a couple more.
“We were very comfortable first half, I thought we played some terrific stuff, and we’ve said to the boys it’s a learning curve for us because I think we’ve dominated the game so well and we’ve then allowed them back in the game through our sloppiness.
“For us as a group that’s something that we have to learn from and we will reflect on going forward.
“There’s loads of positives from the performance today, we were in control for large spells but we caused our own problems really.
“The two goals we have conceded we should be doing a lot better with defensively, and that’s from the front all the way to the back.
“It’s a development league, we know we are going to come up with these problems throughout our journey with these players, it’s just for us now as coaches to reflect with the group and with players individually and try to improve them and get them ready for the first team.
“The boys are frustrated, more with themselves than anything, as a young group we’ve allowed them to get back into the game today with being sloppy at times."
But Wright was pleased with how his players relished the chance to play at the Swansea.com Stadium again, and highlighted the performances of goalscorer Rushesha and Kai Ludvigsen as having stood out.
“We play here and the fans came out to watch and we wanted to showcase to them what we do as an academy, and that’s right the way through the system," Wright continued.
“It’s good for us that, when we are here, we are showing that we have good individual players and that we try our best to follow the first team as much as possible and I believe we do that really well.
“It was a terrific strike from Tivonge Rushesha, he’s got that in his locker, we’ve seen that a few times in training, so it’s great for him.
“I think it was a positive performance for Tivonge, he was really comfortable in possession. He picked the ball up just on the halfway line, beat one or two players, seen that gap open up for himself and it’s a terrific strike from 25 or 30 yards out.
“As coaches we all agreed that Kai Ludvigsen did really really well today, it’s his first time at the stadium and he hasn’t been overwhelmed by it, it was a comfortable performance and hopefully now he just grows from that.
“Kai has been with us this week and he’s going to be with us for the remainder of the season, he’ll be in with our group and hopefully he can improve with us.”
Swans u23 v Sheff Weds u23 LIVE on here Today at 11.30am on 17:07 - Apr 5 by NotLoyal
Worth a watch just for the second swans goal.
Hansen didn’t look too decent for their second.
Some powder puff defending for both Wednesday goals. The defence has been gifting goals all season it seams. Eriksen is the player who was plagued by serious injuries and took a year out to sort out his issues but got stretched off here. Hopefully he will be back fit and well.
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