Swansea City head to West London to play QPR this afternoon looking to make it three wins out of four in the Championship.<\/p>\n
Rangers will prove a tough test under new manager Neil Critchley having seen Michael Beale depart for Glasgow Rangers a short while ago.<\/p>\n
The big question for Swans fans is will we see Morgan Whittaker on the pitch at some point or is it just a ploy to make Beale and Co stand up and pay what we think he is worth?<\/p>\n
Kick off is at 3pm and Russell Martin’s team will be backed by near 2500 away fans for the trip along the M4 to London.<\/p>\n
Team News<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s unlikely that any of the changes the manager made for the FA Cup loss against Bristol City in midweek will have convinced enough to keep a starting place this afternoon.<\/p>\n That means that a similar line up to the one at Sunderland should be on the cards unless there are any fresh injury concerns that become apparent today.<\/p>\n Whittaker, if indeed does come on is likely to do so from the bench one would imagine. Although it would make a significant statement if Martin did decide to start him.<\/p>\n Rangers came back from 2 down to draw at Reading and captain Stefan Johansen could return to the team after absence through injury.<\/p>\n Defender Leon Balogun is still sidelined but QPR otherwise have full availability for today’s game.<\/p>\n Likely team:<\/strong><\/p>\n Benda<\/em><\/p>\n Latibeaudiere – Darling – Cabango – Manning<\/em><\/p>\n Fulton – Grimes – Allen<\/em><\/p>\n Piroe – Cullen – Cooper<\/em><\/p>\n Views of the Managers:<\/strong><\/p>\n Russell Martin: <\/strong><\/em>“QPR have a really good squad, especially at the top end of the pitch. It will be a tough game.<\/p>\n “We are taking a lot of supporters and it will be a good atmosphere at a tight ground.<\/p>\n “We feel like we’re in a good place. There have been some really good performances and results recently.<\/p>\n Neil Critchley: <\/strong><\/em>“Swansea’s performance against Watford (won 4-0 recently) shows you what they are capable of. They are an outstanding football team in the way that they play the game and they provide you with a unique challenge in this division.<\/p>\n “They have some top-quality players and I am sure Russell (Martin), like myself, would like to be more consistent to be competing at the top end of this division.<\/p>\n Planet Swans prediction:<\/strong><\/p>\n QPR 1-1 Swansea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Swansea City head to West London to play QPR this afternoon looking to make it three wins out of four in the Championship. Rangers will prove a tough test under new manager Neil Critchley having seen Michael Beale depart for Glasgow Rangers a short while ago. The big question for Swans fans is will we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":59269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,321,49,203],"tags":[363,695,755,636,665],"class_list":["post-75483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-match-previews","category-news","category-opinion","tag-morgan-whittaker","tag-qpr","tag-rangers","tag-russell-martin","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75483","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=75483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}