Swansea are a better footballing side than us

[LeningradCowboy]

Everyone seems to have the opinion that they are an extremely good footballing side but they are 16th, one place above us.
They don’t seem to frighten other sides like they do City

Correct. Their manager wants them to play out from the back, but they're not very good at it when put under pressure. Our tactic of pressing with two or three players and the rest dropping deep made them look far better than they actually are.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Correct. Their manager wants them to play out from the back, but they're not very good at it when put under pressure. Our tactic of pressing with two or three players and the rest dropping deep made them look far better than they actually are.

And meant they could continuously find open spaces. We should have gone man for man against them and pressed all over the pitch, or not at all. Pressing 2 or 3 against a competent side is worse than not pressing at all, as they'll beat that press easily and take those 3 out of the game.

[Bobby Dandruff]

Correct. Their manager wants them to play out from the back, but they're not very good at it when put under pressure. Our tactic of pressing with two or three players and the rest dropping deep made them look far better than they actually are.

Our eventual attempts at pressing in the first half were embarrassing to put in mildly.