Tag Archives: 3-5-2

Swindon Town 0-1 Barnsley: No time for a comeback this week

Anyone who has been at the County Ground recently will know Swindon Town are at their most dangerous when they go two goals behind. This deficit produces a devastating reply and a thrilling victory for the home fans to enjoy. Unfortunately, as Richard Selbourne writes, as hard as our players tried at times, they were unable to give away that

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Swindon Town 1-2 Exeter City: League Cup early exit

Swindon Town were dumped out of the League Cup at the first hurdle this evening by a well-organised Exeter City side, writes Rob Francis. Fabien Robert started the match in place of the injured Jermaine Hylton, with no other changes from the win over Bradford City at the weekend. Swindon also started in the same formation that they finished the

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5 defence is working overtime

Alex Cooke looks at how Swindon’s 3-5-2 is shaping up. Suddenly 3-5-2 is fashionable. With Manchester United struggling, everyone is suddenly keen to talk about three at the back, and closer to home, to compare Mark Cooper’s use of it with Louis Van Gaal’s. But Cooper’s 3-5-2 is slightly different to the one used at Old Trafford, and for Holland – despite

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Swindon Town 2-0 Notts County: Another one bites the dust…

After three wins on the trot Swindon Town aimed to make it a fourth when entertaining Notts County at the County Ground for ‘Friday Night Football’. With Ryan Mason returning to the fold and Swindon finally looking like they were hitting a patch of rich form Town fans were eagerly anticipating Friday’s game, as Matthew Peach reports. Swindon approached their

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Swindon Town 2-1 Plymouth Argyle: A step closer to Wembley…

Swindon Town came from behind against a lacklustre Plymouth Argyle to progress to the last sixteen of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. Goals from Jack Barthram and Nicky Ajose cancelled out Andre Blackman’s early deflected strike, in a game in which three Swindon players made their professional debuts. Report by Lee Clark. Swindon used their maximum allowed changes and one more,

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