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MATCH PREVIEW vs Swindon

They play a totally different style and they are a good team It will be a challenge for us."
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

The Brewers go in to the weekend’s fixture away at Swindon Town off the back of a home victory against Rochdale. A goal scored by Shane Cansdell-Sherriff pleased Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink after demanding a reaction from the loss against Coventry.

Hasselbaink has stated that he wants his players to build on the performance and get all 3 points at Swindon.


Previous Meetings
Swindon Town and Burton Albion have only met twice before, both times in the league during the 2011/12 season.

BURTON ALBION 2-0 SWINDON TOWN 2011
The first meeting between the two sides ended in a 2-0 victory to the Brewers at the Pirelli Stadium. 3,320 fans turned out at the home of Burton Albion to watch Billy Kee and Jacques Maghoma earn the Albion a 2-0 victory. NONE of the 18 man squad that day are still with Burton Albion.

SWINDON TOWN 2-0 BURTON ALBION 2012
The reverse fixture in the same season had the same score line, expect it the home side that took the win. A goal from Ronan Murray followed by Paul Benson’s strike was enough to earn Swindon the victory at the County Ground. NONE of the 18 man squad that day are still with Burton Albion.


Team News
Darius Charles and Zeli Ismail will definitely miss the fixture through injury as Charles recovers from a broken leg whilst Ismail is suffering with a knee injury.

Zeli has been out since pre-season where he collided with the post in a home friendly fixture with Leicester City and has struggled to recover ever since.

“The Zeli situation is a little bit frustrating.” Said Hasselbaink.

Charles has been on the road to recovery since his arrival at the Pirelli Stadium and Hasselbaink is pleased with the progress that the utility man is making.

“Darius has started running. Yesterday (Tuesday) he did his first passing drill with the group.” Said Hasselbaink.

Jon McLaughlin should be fit after fully recovering from a dead leg which saw him be substituted midway through the first half last time out against Rochdale to be replaced by Remi Matthews.

McLaughlin could be Hasselbaink’s first choice goalkeeper for Saturday’s trip.

The Brewers could line up unchanged from the team that beat Rochdale on Saturday although don’t be surprised if Naylor, El Khayati or Thiele return to the starting XI. Callum Reilly could return to the bench after missing out against Rochdale.


One To Watch
Raphael Rossi Branco.

Formerly with the academy at Brighton and Hove Albion, the Brazilian centre-half penned a deal with Town in the summer of 2013 after a successful trial period.

Made his debut against Plymouth Argyle in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. He stepped off the bench to make his league debut in a 1-1 draw at Bradford City.

A regular fixture last term as Town reached the Play-Off final.

The Swindon skipper has made the most appearances for the Robins this season and has been solid at the back conceding 15 goals in 9 games. The Brazilian has made 11 clearances in his 9 games picking up just 1 yellow card.

He has been an integral part of Swindon’s style of play as they build from the back.


Form Guide
Burton Albion (LAST 5 ALL COMPS)
W2, L2, D1

Swindon Town (LAST 5 ALL COMPS)
W2, L2, D1


Manager’s Thoughts
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink:

“Swindon will be a totally different game.

“They play a totally different style and they are a good team It will be a challenge for us.

“How can we adapt? Can we play our game and dictate ourselves?

“It will be a challenge and we need to prepare and make sure we are right and make sure we have the right points spot on.”


Player’s Thoughts
Mark Duffy:

“Swindon did brilliantly last year. They play out from the back.

“Everyone appreciates what they do.

“They started well but they got a hiding last week against Barnsley.

“They will be looking to bounce back but we will be looking to pile on the pressure for them.”

Twitter claims Burton have sold 1100 tickets, 8,000+ if that is correct.  1-1 for me.

Twitter claims Burton have sold 1100 tickets, 8,000+ if that is correct.  1-1 for me.

Where do you buy tickets on the day chaps? Box Office at the back of the TE or the club store?

Windows at back of Town End.

No Kasim today

No Kasim today

Apparently Ritchie has scored a worldy for Muff..

https://streamable.com/yg8b

Two shots on target in entire game. they scored theirs. no attacking intent from town whatsoever, sideways, backwards

Thomas misses our best chance so far

Very poor.  Completely disjointed and Burton should have just made it 2.

We might have a good squad on paper, but they need to be able to play together and Cooper needs to play people in their strongest positions.  At the moment it's a shambles.

Would putrid be strong enough?  Awful, awful performance!  Looked like a team that came together at 2-45 pm and didn't even know each other's names and as for one of our players throwing the V's at home supporters he can fuck off back to his parent club as far as I am concerned.

Who?

I think Tans offer of half time entertainment would have been better than that.

Questions need to be asked of Cooper as this style of play has been sussed for quite a while and yet we repeat the pattern game after game.

Williams was dreadful. Don't play him at CB please Coops.

What the hell has happened to BOO? We are told he is back every week only for him to not make the 16.

Why on earth Turnball plays at LB?

If Brophy isn't goof enough why sign him?

Really annoyed with today's performance. I can accept losing but that was the worst we have played for 3 years or certainly at least since Cooper tool over. Massive work needed at Calne this week.

On a completely unrelated note to today's game, does anyone know if Chalkies Shorts is ok?  I don't think he's posted this season at all? 

Cooper questioned on Turnball at left back, "we had a number of loan players that we needed to get in the team". Hmmmm

You and the mrs mobbing up in the town end chillers?

Im not a fan of ajose playing out wide, he is a poacher and needs to be in/around the 6 yard box. He's anonymous out wide

Cooper questioned on Turnball at left back, "we had a number of loan players that we needed to get in the team". Hmmmm

We spoke to Ajose in the car park afterwards. He seemed pretty down about the performance in general as well as his own play.

We also saw Branco's girlfriend. Insanely hot.

Kicked off in the DRS after the game apparently? Some bloke was going mental according to twitter

What happened? Saw nothing in the DRS, but walking along Shrivvy Road, there was some bloke shouting at the top of his voice at a couple of stewards who seemed to be trying to stop him from going any further. Which is odd, because unless they were performing a citizen's arrest, they don't have any legal right to stop an individual walking down the road. The bloke was proper agitated, but couldn't tell what it was all about. Same incident?

Was he a refugee !!!!

Terrible game made even worse by the biggest cunt in the world sat behind me.  

What happened? Saw nothing in the DRS, but walking along Shrivvy Road, there was some bloke shouting at the top of his voice at a couple of stewards who seemed to be trying to stop him from going any further. Which is odd, because unless they were performing a citizen's arrest, they don't have any legal right to stop an individual walking down the road. The bloke was proper agitated, but couldn't tell what it was all about. Same incident?

What happened? Saw nothing in the DRS, but walking along Shrivvy Road, there was some bloke shouting at the top of his voice at a couple of stewards who seemed to be trying to stop him from going any further. Which is odd, because unless they were performing a citizen's arrest, they don't have any legal right to stop an individual walking down the road. The bloke was proper agitated, but couldn't tell what it was all about. Same incident?

People say Ajose needs to play upfront, but Cooper doesn't like that does he?

So do we have no wingers and play Ojaama at the top of a diamond?

Thats what we did at barnsley when Ojaama came on as a sub, we  did create a fair few chances but were wasteful. With that formation though we need the full backs to give us the width and BOO/brophy/Barry would be a lot better at that than turnbull who should be playing at CB.

Kasim
Louis robert
Ojaama would be my diamond midfield if cooper went with that formation.

I agree with Audrey about needing to find the most balanced team, not the one that accommodates all the best individuals.

I read an interesting article on a German website the other day, about how in England we obsess too much over individual players, and don't focus enough on tactical/ structural issues the same way they do on the continent.

This was used to explain why the English club and national teams were performing so poorly in Europe. A bit of an overgeneralisation perhaps, but I think there's some truth in it. England's 'Golden Generation' are a good example, when we had much better individuals, and the Germans a far superior team.

Post-Barnsley, Cooper focused too much on individual errors, when it was clear the problems ran a lot deeper.

In respect of yesterday's game, I don't think dropping Williams and playing Turnball at CB would have made any difference to the overall performance. The shape of the team was wrong, the intensity was too low, the midfield were not taking enough responsibility for launching attacks/ driving the play forward, Thomas was completely isolated up front, and movement off the ball was lacking.

In many ways, his job has been made much harder by all the new signings, as he's having to integrate them all without the benefit of a pre-season, accommodate (allegedly) loanees in the first team while keeping permanent signings happy, and manage a huge rise in fan expectations.

Performance wise, this has certainly been our poorest start to a season under him. He does need to find a way to start delivering soon, but he also needs to be given time by the fans.

Bring back PDC!! Let's spunk our money away again :-)

The thing is, you talk about instilling desire like it's adding sugar to a cake. Altering the mental state of an individual or group of players is a gradual thing, and needs to be reinforced by positive experiences.

We showed yesterday that getting the ball forward quickly means getting it in the air, which did not work and just gave possession straight to Burton. We need to make sure the ball is going forward quickly on the floor, but passing yesterday was at times, wayward at best. That really was the crux of it I think - more successful passes and some better movement among the front line would have dramatically improved our ability to create chances.

I don't think a lack of desire is a legitimate gripe. They're paid to do a job they love, they all have the desire to win.

Lumping the ball forward may not of been a great success but everything else we did lost the ball to Burton anyway. Particularly throw ins, the times we had an advantage, let the ball run out took the throw in and lost control of the ball.
It wasn't me who lost it in the DRS yesterday but I was laughing hysterically by the end. The game was so poor it become funny.
entertaining by mistake. I don't expect our problems to be sorted by Saturday so looking for more of the same. It's the County Ground, shopping or DIY for me on a Saturday so no option but to turn up.

There was a tiny bit seen on the steps going down to the exit.  Older supporter was stood clapping the team (who didn't bother clapping the supporters!) and a young guy walked up to him and had a bit of a go at him, something like "what the fuck are you clapping that pile of shit for" in a very aggressive manner, there was a bit of an argument but I thought they both just drifted away!

there was a post on FB about this from the ladies husband saying his was swore and spat at by this goon.