With just an hour to kick off at the Swansea.com stadium the team news is in from both camps as the manager’s reveal those all important line ups ahead of the game.   How the teams line up is below

Swansea City

Preston North End

Russell Martin on Preston manager Ryan Lowe:  “They’ve done brilliantly under Ryan. He did a fantastic job at Plymouth. He’s already changing the style.

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

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

“It’s not going to be easy as they’re physical and relentless.”

Ryan Lowe on Swansea City: “They’re very well organised, very well coached. A brand of football that’s great, risky at times, but that’s Russ, he wants to do that.

“I play the same style myself, but I have different risk elements than Russ does. They’re always on the front foot and they want to play.

“He’s got a very good coaching brain, a good coaching philosophy of where he wants to try and get Swansea City to.”

By 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.