CroJack
Key Player
First Half
Yellow: Accurate passes
Red: Inaccurate passes
Blue: Shots off target
Purple: Blocked shots
Connor Roberts
Jake Bidwell
Connor Roberts made only three forward passes in the first half; two of them in the opposition half and one in our half. One of the forward passes was inaccurate. Robert's pass accuracy in the first half was 89.5 %.Yellow: Accurate passes
Red: Inaccurate passes
Blue: Shots off target
Purple: Blocked shots
Connor Roberts
Jake Bidwell
Jake Bidwell made eleven forward passes; all in the opposition half, three of them were inaccurate. Bidwell had a a shot off target from distance and one blocked shot. Bidwell's pass accuracy in the first half was 91.8 %.
Neither of them put in a single cross in the first half.
Worth to mention that the vast majority of the backward passes from our full-backs in the first half were forced backward passes - there were not really any other passing options. Forest players were good at effectively closing down and pressing our midfielders and our wingers, Routledge on the left and Ayew on the right flank didn't make it easy for our full-backs. Around 30th minute Routledge and Ayew changed positions and we became more dangerous on the left side where Bidwell-Ayew-Celina created some half chances. We still struggled on the right flank except for one nice triangle played by Roberts-Routledge-Celina, when Celina failed to put a decent cross in, and one good cross from Celina to the far post where there weren't any Swans players.
All dangerous situations in front of the Swans goal came either down our right flank or through the middle of the park. Most of them were result of our players being dispossessed in dangerous areas. Whilst Bidwell didn't allow any crosses from his side, Roberts and co. allowed all of them. Bidwell's defensive work was impressive in the first half. He was successfully man-marking, closing down and harassing Forest winger for 45 minutes, not allowing him to do any damage.
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