{"id":54366,"date":"2022-02-05T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=54366"},"modified":"2022-02-05T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T16:30:50","slug":"swansea-city-v-blackburn-rovers-confirmed-teams-and-match-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/02\/05\/swansea-city-v-blackburn-rovers-confirmed-teams-and-match-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers &#8211; Confirmed teams and match stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans and Blackburn Rovers will contest the Sky Saturday evening fixture this weekend with the visitors looking to consolidate their top two placing in the league and the Swans in search of a morale boosting win after a poor run of form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmed Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Swansea City<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0f \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc06 \ud835\udc17\ud835\udc08 \u26a0\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s how the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Swans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Swans<\/a> line up for this evening&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyBetChamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SkyBetChamp<\/a> match against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rovers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Rovers<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>Brought to you in association with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lowcostvans?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LowCostVans<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r7TDTTrQ5F\">pic.twitter.com\/r7TDTTrQ5F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Swansea City AFC (@SwansOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwansOfficial\/status\/1489999761126178816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackburn Rovers<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd22 Team News!<\/p>\n<p>1\u20e3 Debuts for Hedges &amp; Giles.<br \/>\ud83d\udd19 Rothwell returns to the starting XI, Khadra makes the bench.<br \/>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf1 Brereton Diaz on the bench after returning from international duty.<br \/>\ud83e\udd15 Gallagher and Edun miss out through injury.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SWAvROV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SWAvROV<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rovers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rovers<\/a> \ud83d\udd35\u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1OB9JgIYH\">pic.twitter.com\/d1OB9JgIYH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blackburn Rovers (@Rovers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rovers\/status\/1489999752158662660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Russell Martin:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u201cDespite the defeat on Tuesday night, we love being here. We always look the team we want to be at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe sometimes we are not quite as fluid or as quick as we would like, but we\u2019re creating chances and we now need to make sure we take those.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have some really outstanding players at this level and we need to make the most of our opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tony Mowbray:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u201cLuton went to Swansea in midweek and managed to win there because of their intensity and hard work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHaving watched that game, Swansea are a good football team who had over 70 percent of the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOn the moments of transition, when we win the ball back, can we pick those spaces and pick those runs?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019ll have to be clinical against a side who must be fragile on the back of the results they\u2019ve had, despite their pleasing on the eye football.<\/p>\n<div id=\"statsfc-match-centre-1\"><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans and Blackburn Rovers will contest the Sky Saturday evening fixture this weekend with the visitors looking to consolidate their top two placing in the league and the Swans in search of a morale boosting win after a poor run of form. Confirmed Teams Swansea City \u26a0\ufe0f \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc06 \ud835\udc17\ud835\udc08 \u26a0\ufe0f Here&#39;s how the #Swans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[536,608],"class_list":["post-54366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}