Swansea City take on promotion chasing Watford this evening at the Swansea.com Stadium in what is sure to be a defining match one way or another.<\/p>\n
Eight games without a win and reeling off just a single point in three since returning after the World Cup no manager is in need of a win more than Russell Martin.<\/p>\n
The Swans boss came out fighting with some rather strong words for his players in the aftermath of defeat at Reading so how will the team react?<\/p>\n
Nothing is certain in the Championship but would anyone rule out a Swansea win this evening? The only thing sure about the tenure of this manager is the inconsistency that has plagued his team since arriving in SA1.<\/p>\n
But when under genuine pressure he does get results from nowhere. That needs to start this evening especially with Burnley arriving on Monday. It couldn’t get any tougher could it?<\/p>\n
This week Swansea City’s leading forum run a poll about whether Martin should indeed survive the wretched run of form and fans have spoken with the majority in favour of him not surviving.<\/p>\n
318 votes were cast with 83% favouring Martin out. If he hasn’t lost the fanbase entirely at the Swansea.com Stadium yet then further defeats against Watford and Burnley could surely push him closer to the edge<\/p>\n
Team News<\/strong><\/p>\n How does one guess tonight’s team News? It would be easier to propose who should be in rather than who will be.<\/p>\n Fin Stevens is looking likely to be recalled by Brentford in the coming days and West Ham can’t be far off coming to the same decision for Armstrong Oko-Flex when he has played barely 100 minutes since joining in the summer.<\/p>\n Despite the horror show at Reading Steven Benda should start in goal with Nathan Wood, Harry Darling and Ben Cabango in a back three. Oko-Flex would be an attacking option at right back and Manning on the left.<\/p>\n In midfield you cannot start Fulton, Grimes and Allen therefore pick two of the above – dare I say drop Grimes – and then look to Cooper, Obafemi and Piroe as the front three.<\/p>\n It won’t happen but probably should.<\/p>\n Planet Swans Prediction<\/strong><\/p>\n Swansea 1-2 Watford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Swansea City take on promotion chasing Watford this evening at the Swansea.com Stadium in what is sure to be a defining match one way or another. Eight games without a win and reeling off just a single point in three since returning after the World Cup no manager is in need of a win more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":74256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,321,49,203],"tags":[665,396],"class_list":["post-74354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-match-previews","category-news","category-opinion","tag-the-2022-23-season","tag-watford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354","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\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}