Originally Posted by
A Quiet Monkfish
The mystery is how the game looked like a lot of those awful one-sided affairs in our PL season 2012/3, because according to the heading statistics it shouldn't.
Lots of folk blaming manager and tactics, but that doesn't explain Joe Ralls unable to take a corner or free kick as well as most parks players could do. It also doesn't explain why our not-so-great footballers who at times in recent weeks have shown they can string together passes quickly and move up through the gears to threaten opposition defences.
I can offer only one explanation have -as usual - been at the game. I was expecting Swansea to play their usual game, but with a poor run behind them and a hostile crowd against them, didn't expect them to get out of the blocks as quickly as they did. They looked completely confident - even relaxed, relishing the occasion. City on the other hand played like frightened rabbits. What limited ball control, passing ability we have, seemed to desert us - the occasion had it seemed got to them.
So with 90% of a long season over, the two sides are in results terms neck and neck. ? Does the table lie ? Well maybe. I still think we're way over-performing as a side, which in my opinion compliments Morison. I also think Swansea are under-performing. Player-for-player they're better in every position except perhaps right side [Dramah]. But it also brings into question the claims repeated in the media -and sometimes here - that we have some sort of 'golden generation' of footballers coming through the ranks, and it's a question of building a new team around them. Unless we're mightily shrewd in the transfer market this summer, for me it's mid-table at best/