Interesting stats

CroJack

CroJack

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With 79,5 % average passing accuracy Swansea are now second best passing team in the Championship. Brentford are slightly ahead with 79,6 % average passing accuracy.

In the last two games Swansea have created 14 big chances and allowed only one against them.

With 17,3 successful tackles per game, Swansea are 6th best tackling team in the Championship.

With 8,5 fouls per game, 3 yellow and 1 red card, Swansea are most fair-play side in the Championship.

Swansea are still a shot-shy side. With 9,8 shots per game, Swansea are second-worst side in the Championship for shots per game.

Swansea average 3,5 shots on target per game, joint-nineteenth place in the Championship. A positive thing is that for every 2,8 shots one hit the target which is a pretty good shots/shots on target ratio. For the same number of shots on target, Middlesbrough, for example, need 13,1 shots.

Swansea are 5th best in the Championship for successful dribbles per game. We average 7,7 successful dribbles per game.

Swansea are 13th in the Championship for fouls commited against them.

Swansea are the only side in the Championship that haven't scored from a set-piece yet. All our goals are scored from open play.

With an average og 87,1 passing accuracy, Tom Carroll is the 3rd best passer in the Championship. Ryan Woods is seventh best. Joe Rodon is 23rd, Bersant Celina 24th and Mike Van der Hoorn 26th.

Connor Robberts and Matt Grimes are in top 20 in the Championship for tackles per game.

Bersant Celina is joint-fifth in the Championship for successful dribbles per game and also joint-fifth for key-passes per game.
 
CroJack

CroJack

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What impresses me most is the number of big chances we have created in our last two games while allowing only one big chance against us. And that one big chance was Matt Grimes' backward pass gift to Wigan.
 
ivoralljack

ivoralljack

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Yes, CJ. Very, very interesting to read all that and, as @Yankee_Jack says, it seems logical to assume that if we pulled the trigger more often and maintained our rate of accuracy, we'll score a lot more goals. We seem to have ironed out this good, bad, good, bad sequence of performances and started to find some consistency in our play. I'm loving what I'm seeing right now and if the lads keep improving at this rate, I can actually see us mounting a challenge for promotion by the end of the season. Ipswich will prove an interesting litmus test of that. We're playing at home against a team shorn of confidence and finding it very difficult to score. We should beat them easily and beat them well. But there's that word 'should' to consider, so we'll see what happens. COYS!!!!!!!!
 
CroJack

CroJack

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It took only 3 months for Graham Potter to bring back good old Swanselona. Now it's obvious how he did it:

  • First he worked on defensive stability
  • Then he worked on quick transitions and counter-attacking
  • Then he worked on possession and passing accuracy
  • Then he worked on creativity: movements, through balls, triangles
 
Ladygargar

Ladygargar

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CroJack said:
It took only 3 months for Graham Potter to bring back good old Swanselona. Now it's obvious how he did it:

  • First he worked on defensive stability
  • Then he worked on quick transitions and counter-attacking
  • Then he worked on possession and passing accuracy
  • Then he worked on creativity: movements, through balls, triangles
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Loved that passing video and stats you tweeted @CroJack
Did you post it here too? Sorry got a bit of catching up to do 😊🤪😊
 
Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

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CroJack said:
It took only 3 months for Graham Potter to bring back good old Swanselona. Now it's obvious how he did it:

  • First he worked on defensive stability
  • Then he worked on quick transitions and counter-attacking
  • Then he worked on possession and passing accuracy
  • Then he worked on creativity: movements, through balls, triangles
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And so begs the question ... why was it so difficult for everybody else since Laudrup.
 
Yankee_Jack

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Behindthegoal said:
Swans managers in the Premier League don't get 3 months. If we were still up the search for GP's replacement would've begun after Bristol City.
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True - but they also had preseason, which is what Potter had. And, he was forced to rely on in-experience. Guidolin and PC both had preseasons, both were screwed to varying degrees with player exits, and both oversaw a decline in the quality, style, and performance of our football. We lost games playing shit instead of being beaten playing well.

The key with Potter is that he has got the squad playing something approaching "total" football - it is Swanselona but in a manner that is more dynamic. He has granted license to players to express themselves .... e.g. Connor Roberts ... frankly his best position is on the field, he shows up on the left far post as a target for a right sided cross, works without apparent limit up and down the right flank, interchanges in midfield. I can't say rightly what position he plays only where he is penciled in at the start of the game ... once the whistle blows he just causes all sorts of havoc for the opposition because he is unmarkable. And, this is only going to get better and better. Grimes is starting to show glimpses of a similar style on the left side.
 
CroJack

CroJack

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Yankee_Jack said:
True - but they also had preseason, which is what Potter had. And, he was forced to rely on in-experience. Guidolin and PC both had preseasons, both were screwed to varying degrees with player exits, and both oversaw a decline in the quality, style, and performance of our football. We lost games playing shit instead of being beaten playing well.

The key with Potter is that he has got the squad playing something approaching "total" football - it is Swanselona but in a manner that is more dynamic. He has granted license to players to express themselves .... e.g. Connor Roberts ... frankly his best position is on the field, he shows up on the left far post as a target for a right sided cross, works without apparent limit up and down the right flank, interchanges in midfield. I can't say rightly what position he plays only where he is penciled in at the start of the game ... once the whistle blows he just causes all sorts of havoc for the opposition because he is unmarkable. And, this is only going to get better and better. Grimes is starting to show glimpses of a similar style on the left side.
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So true.

The problem with all our managers in post-Laudrup era was that they all scored the jack-pot. Being a Premier League manager was something they wanted to keep at any cost. And the result was a gutless, defensive football. "Not to lose" was their mantra. Laudrup didn't need to prove anything and he was not afraid of losing football games. That's what many of our fans don't understand. He tried to play same style of football against Manchester City and Wigan. He knew that only by playing a fearless, attacking football you can develop a fearless, attacking style.

In one of his recent interviews Potter said "I don't care about results". Holy shit, that sentence reminds me so much of Pep Guardiola's "I don't know how to defend" or Klopp's heavy metal football. If you are a good manager you better stick to your philosophy and perfect it.

Potter knows that if we play great football great results will follow. It's so simple.
 
Behindthegoal

Behindthegoal

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That's another bonus for not being in the Prem. Roberts and Grimes would be nowhere the starting eleven, probably not even in Wales. Instead of young hungry fearless players, Potter would have try to motivate a Clueless or Wotsisface foisted on him to make weight for the other Clueless or Wotsisface they just sold.
That's why I have time for Guidolin; he (and Curtis) did a terrific job with the limited tools available. I'm sure Potter would've in the same position, but like Francesco, he'd be gone by now.
 
Ladygargar

Ladygargar

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Nice to see Curt back in the hood - it was a sad indictment and misapropriation under recent incumbents to see him wandering about looking for a seat in the stadium good on Potter for not throwing our baby (Curt) out with the bathwater - speaks volumes about the man and his management skill 👏🏻
 
CroJack

CroJack

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Swans have seven wingers: McKay, Montero, Asoro, James, Dyer, Routledge and Narsingh. Did you know that they all together have played 1737 minutes this season, which is 408 minutes less than 2145 minutes Mike Van der Hoorn and Jon Rodon have played together. If we forget Barry McKay, our other six dedicated wingers have played 115 minutes less than Mike Van der Hoorn alone.

Despite having so few minutes on the pitch our wingers have contributed with 50% assists this season, five out of ten.

Despite having so few minutes on the pitch our wingers have contributed with approx. 33% of all Swansea key passes and 25% of all shots per game.

The question is why Graham Potter doesn't use our wingers more than he does?
 
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ivoralljack

ivoralljack

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CroJack said:
The question is why Graham Potter doesn't use our wingers more than he does?
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And it's a good question. Surely by now he must have a decent idea of his strongest players but he's obviously not satisfied with how they gel as a team, which is probably why he's tinkering like Ranieri on speed. I don't think Potts is far off but my abiding hope is that IF Bony gets on the pitch, he'll give him a fair crack to bed in and find his form. Depending on where we are in the table, a fit and firing Bony could make the difference between us going up..... or staying up.
 
CroJack

CroJack

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ivoralljack said:
Surely by now he must have a decent idea of his strongest players but he's obviously not satisfied with how they gel as a team
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We played really well as a team against Leeds, QPR and Ipswich. We were unlucky with the results against Leeds and Ipswich but we scored seven goals in these three games (2.3 goals per game), which is far more than we have averaged so far this season (0.76 goals per game). When we know how much we were in trouble last season when we were unable to score goals, then the line-ups and formations in the three games I mentioned should be point of reference.
 
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