The Derby sat in 15th who've just been beaten 3-0 by Charlton? Derby who've won just three games and drawn 0-0 with Swansea at home? You'd be hard-pressed to call them better never mind far better. I agree though. I felt they should have beaten us the other week. We had a good first half hour and nothing else really until the last few minutes. Whereas on Saturday we were the better side for all of the first half and at least half of the second. Against a better side.
Dont think that could be hard but at least we've a little run going now of being unbeaten at home. Also Swansea didnt perform against Stoke or Reading. WBA should be a sterner test more of the Preston variety.
The same Swansea that lost at home against relegation placed Stoke. Swings and roundabouts. Swansea looked a fairly limited team to me, on that showing can’t see them being up there come the end of the season.
https://wbaunofficial.org.uk/showthread.php?tid=6944&pid=117058#pid117058 Plenty of home tickets sold. I haven't seen anything about away sales though.
Stoke are in a false position, they've just turned Fulham over too. Swansea are unbeaten away from home and beat Leeds. It's not swings and roundabouts to suggest Swansea were a better side than Derby. It seems some are unwilling to accept we were better on Saturday.
I wasn’t particularly impressed with either but I think Swansea just edge it. I thought Derby were slow and cumbersome with their attacking play and, had we not absolutely gifted them their chances, we would’ve won. Swansea on the other hand, actually created chances against us and broke us down. I reckon Swansea will be top 10. Not sure about Derby, they have the Rooney factor from January so who knows how that’ll go.
Considering they lost James and McBurnie I've been surprised with how well Swansea have coped. It's not just us who lose our better players I suppose. Derby's best players were on loan last season which is always a risk then. They haven't got close to replacing Mount, Tomori or Wilson and thus they are struggling. I don't know whether Rooney will still have it at this kind of level but interested to see.
Nothing at all on the club website or social media about WBA sales - or even if you can pay at the gate. seems a bit strange they haven't even informed on whether you can turn up and get in or not
Whilst we looked a bit better defensively bar some terrible finishing for either team it could have gone either way. Collins saved far more dangerous chances on the balance of play.
I agree with your last sentence Derby were awful and we would have beaten them quite easily were it not for our farcical defending. Swansea looked a much better side, both individually and collectively. The Swansea result felt fair. The Derby result felt like we'd been robbed.
Yeah I agree with all of this. I was thinking Swansea would be lower half before the season started but they’ve done well. I think Borja coming back for them has been good, not sure why he didn’t start against us, maybe he was carrying a slight knock?
Yeah he was absolutely bullied by Halme. Surridge was it? At one point when he was downed near the touchline of the west stand I thought he was going to shed a tear!