Miracles aside – proper ones, not the attainable ones Carlos Carvalhal had spoken about before the Bournemouth game – Swansea City are down. Kevin Elphick from fans’ site Vital Swansea https://swansea.vitalfootball.co.uk/ says the club have become greedy and complacent and need to re-connect with fans through promoting young talent. Huddersfield have demonstrated in their last two games just what was required to stay in the Premier League. Fighting spirit, effort and desire and that ability to score goals now and then. Things that we’ve struggled for in the last couple of months at least.

Swansea City’s seven-year stay in the Premier League is all but over after Huddersfield Town’s 1-1 draw at Chelsea. The point took the Terriers to 37 points and out of reach of Carlos Carvalhal’s side with one game left.

Cardiff City are following the lead of Pep Guardiola’s Premier League champions and jetting off to North America. Manager Neil Warnock took his team to Cornwall a year ago and stayed in a hotel next door to his home. This time, though, the newly-promoted Premier League club are planning a trip to the USA. The […]

1) This was no Cup final. Some had called this fixture with the grimmest of consequences a Cup final, but that was not an apt description since this always felt more about the jeopardy than the glory. It more resembled a final attempt to avoid obliteration by two diminished prize fighters who knew the loser had nowhere to go – like David Haye versus Audley Harrison.

Carlos Carvalhal admits he will not watch Huddersfield Town’s game at Chelsea which could all but condemn Swansea City to relegation. The Portuguese knows his side now need a miracle to stay in the Premier League after Tuesday’s home defeat by relegation rivals Southampton.

It has reached the point of no return for Swansea City, but manager Carlos Carvalhal insists his players will keep control of their Premier League destiny on Tuesday night. A defeat or draw at home to fellow plug-hole balancers Southampton will suddenly remove any ability for the Swans to stop themselves being washed away down the Premier League waste pipe. Should the worst happen and Carvalhal’s team lose then they will be relying on Huddersfield to lose against both Chelsea and Arsenal, in order to survive on goal difference if the Swans can beat Stoke in their final game.

Mike van der Hoorn insists Swansea City’s fighting spirit will be enough to keep them in the Premier League. The Dutchman known at the Liberty Stadium as “Iron Mike” is renowned for his physicality and bruising tackles – an untypical trait among his countrymen more generally regarded for slide-rule passing than slide-tackles. But the raw-boned van der Hoorn has been a key component in Carlos Carvalhal’s team this season, usually playing as a central defender in a five-man defence.

Lukasz Fabianski believes battle-scarred Swansea City will have the mental edge over their rivals as the relegation scrap reaches a conclusion. The Poland goalkeeper was crowned player of the season at the club’s awards night on Wednesday, a deserved accolade for a 10-month stretch of consistency no other squad member could match. Without Fabianski’s ability, it’s easy to imagine the Swans’ predicament would be a whole lot worse. As it is, they enter the final three games of the season just a point above the relegation zone with three clubs beneath them and six above them still in theoretical danger of going down.

Teenage German goalkeeper Steven Benda shone for Swansea City in the Welsh Youth Cup final – and now he’s aiming for a trophy double. Benda, 19, was the matchwinner for the young Swans, saving penalties taken by Trystan Jones and Isaac Davies during a shootout at the Liberty Stadium. Now Benda, signed from 1860 Munich last year, […]

Former Wales international Sam Ricketts has been appointed Wrexham’s new manager. Ricketts, a defender who played for Swansea, Hull, Bolton and Wolves, earned promotion three times during his 16-year playing career. He was captain of Wolves in League One and the Championship. Ricketts said: “The fans are everything at every club. We are nothing without […]

Craig Bellamy and his young Bluebirds are out to stop Swansea City’s run of success in the Welsh Youth Cup. Manager Bellamy and his under-19 players take on the Swansea in the FAW Youth Cup Final at the Liberty Stadium on Tuesday (May 1, 7:30pm). The Swans have lifted this trophy in eight successive seasons, […]

Carlos Carvalhal has given a staunch defence of his work at Swansea City and insisted fans would have happily settled for their current plight when he first arrived at the start of the year. The Swans manager has seen his team endure a six-match winless streak following Chelsea’s 1-0 victory at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday. The five-point cushion they enjoyed over the relegation zone on the back of Carvahal’s early influence has now been whittled down to just one.