I attended my first Barclay's Premier League match today, I saw on Thursday that the local team, Swansea City, still had tickets for today's match against Wigan, and decided to get a ticket. Student tickets were only £17, so it wasn't a bad deal at all! Especially for where the seats were, mine was right at the end of the south stand, about 8 rows off the pitch, right at the corner flag. Brilliant! I'll post some pictures at the end.
What a match it was too! A very high tempo start, but no scoring in the first half. Wigan looked good on the counter attack, while the Swans maintained possession and spread the ball out.
Swansea dominated the opening minutes of the second half, but still no goals were scored, although quite a few shots went agonizingly close, over the bar twice, off the post once, but nothing would find the back of the net.
Then finally the Swans broke through, some nice counter attacking play ended when Pablo Hernandez fired a shot to the lower left corner from just outside the 18 yard box, and the South Stand (the home supporters) went wild, singing and jumping, it was brilliant. The Swansea City faithful began to sing "Hymns and Arias", a local anthem of sorts. it gave me chills.
Just 2 minutes later, a Swansea shot was deflected behind the goal by a Wigan defender, and Swans midfielder Jonathan De Guzman takes the corner kick from right in front of me, a swinging corner towards the goal that was headed in by new Swans star Miguel Michu, brilliant finishing.
Wigan scored a goal to keep it close a few minutes later, and the rest of the match was quite testy, players increasing the strength of their tackles and challenges, but neither keeper was to be beaten again, and it finished 2-1 to the home side!
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