Playing Cardiff City is Swansea's easiest game of the season amid Bluebirds' inferiority complex

Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before.

Another South Wales derby has brought with it another impotent Cardiff performance and it was all too familiar. Cardiff fans have become accustomed to the club either challenging at the top end of the Championship or struggling to stay in the top flight, so a season with very little riding on it by April is uncharted territory in their recent history.

As a result, the derbies probably take on added significance and Cardiff have lost all of them this season. The inquest is well and truly up and running, again, but there never appears to be any sort of conclusion drawn.

Swansea City understand what the South Wales derby means more than Cardiff City as differing approach of Martin and Morison shows

We’ve all seen this movie many times now. Swansea turn up with a gameplan, and it's always the same gameplan. They pull Cardiff all over the pitch at will, treasure the ball, exploit the space and punish their fiercest rivals. At will, over and over again. Its painful to watch and it never changes, regardless of the manager in the dugout or the players left chasing shadows.

The atmosphere was fantastic, the sort of crowd we’ve all craved all season, but Swansea killed it with an early goal, as per usual. When Cardiff lose to Swansea, its like they lose twice. Not only do they lose local bragging rights, but they also lose a beauty contest.

Cardiff and their supporters have a very complex relationship with aesthetically pleasing styles of play. When Cardiff are winning, no one really seems to care how they do it. Their brand of football is always different degrees of functional and as we know all too well, that only takes you so far once you reach the Premier League.

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