Swansea City v Preston North End – Matchday build up

Saturday, 22 January 2022, 7:30
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The Swans are finally back in league action at the Swansea.com stadium this afternoon when Preston arrive at the stadium for our first home league game for more than six weeks.

Russell Martin will be hoping that this afternoon’s game goes significantly better than that game six weeks back where Steve Cooper’s Nottingham Forest ran out 4-1 winners.ย  ย That defeat was put behind us slightly last week as we played our first league match of the year with an impressive second half performance in particular earning us a 1-1 draw at Huddersfield, a result that quite easily could have been a Swans win.

The Swans have, of course, over the course of the past 10 days added three new signings to our squad with Andy Fisher, Cyrus Christie and Hannes Wolf all set to be some part of the squad today for their first experience of the Swans stadium.

Russell Martin on Preston manager Ryan Lowe:ย ย “Theyโ€™ve done brilliantly under Ryan. He did a fantastic job at Plymouth. Heโ€™s already changing the style.

“Very similar to his Plymouth side, they like to dominate the ball and press really hard. Itโ€™ll be a difficult game.

“They’ve been in a really good run of form since heโ€™s gone in. Theyโ€™re physical, aggressive and heโ€™s turned them into a team he wants them to be.

“Itโ€™s not going to be easy as theyโ€™re physical and relentless.”

Ryan Lowe on Swansea City:ย โ€œTheyโ€™re very well organised, very well coached. A brand of football thatโ€™s great, risky at times, but thatโ€™s Russ, he wants to do that.

โ€œI play the same style myself, but I have different risk elements than Russ does. Theyโ€™re always on the front foot and they want to play.

โ€œHeโ€™s got a very good coaching brain, a good coaching philosophy of where he wants to try and get Swansea City to.”

Swansea Team News:ย Andy Fisher, Cyrus Christie and Hannes Wolf are all in contention for a home debut with Jamie Paterson the obvious absentee from the side due to his contract ‘dispute.’

With Rhys Williams having been recalled by Liverpool and Jake Bidwell allowed to leave at the start of the week it looks like a straight fight between Ryan Bennett and Ben Cabango at the heart of the Swans defence.

Preston Team News:ย Andrew Hughes will miss out through suspension following his red card against Sheffield United.

After missing the last two games with an ankle injury, Josh Earl has returned to training but remains a doubt to feature this weekend.

Liverpool loanee Sepp van den Berg is in line to make his 50thย appearance for the club, while Brad Potts is one game away from 350 in league action.

The game at the Swansea.com stadium kicks off at 3pm

 

Images courtesy of Getty Images, Athena Picture Agency and Swansea City Football Club.

Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.

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