Nice analysis. I noticed it was Cullen who was beaten on a cross that led to one of the goals. I think Duff had Key on Mavididi and Cullen on Dewsbury-Hall, but why is Cullen being asked to play that role? If you're going to play a striker as a winger only to have him act as an auxiliary fullback or defensive midfielder, why not just start Ashby or Fulton instead and be done with it? Not that I'm condoning such measures, that would be way too defensive. And just watching the highlights, there are so many Swansea players standing very close to one another but very far from Leicester's players, doing absolutely nothing of importance.
I don't get the tactics. It's like zonal marking in central areas - but everyone's marking the same zone and it's one Leicester aren't in - and "man marking" out wide, but with horrendous self-inflicted mismatches.
For me, this smacks of buying the narrative about Leicester being really good, and then setting up in a way that allows them to be really good, so that afterwards Duff gets to say "they were really good but that was a good effort". Like the result is a foregone conclusion. It's like what
@ivoralljack was saying about "damage limitation" subs instead of trying to go for the throat with attacking subs. Yet even playing like this, Swansea could have come away with a result if Darling or Yates score those chances, or that penalty is given.
Why be so reactive to a threat which exists mostly in newspaper column inches? Take the fight to the opposition. Leicester are being given way too much respect because every opponent buys the hype and lets them have their way, but teams like that are always vulnerable when an opponent decides to give as good as they get. It was pretty clear their defense does not like it up 'em, so the gameplan should have been to push it as far up 'em as possible. Swansea have played the role of upsetters so well so often in the past - all those Prem-era victories against top six sides. It'd be nice to see the same again.
If I were the coach, I'd tell my players they only need to learn three words to play my system: attack, attack, attack.