📊 Form Guide

Swansea City

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Swansea City will be looking for an improved result here following a 1-0 Championship loss in their previous game against Millwall.

In that game, Swansea City had 57% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Millwall got 16 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. George Saville (38') was the scorer for Millwall.

An interesting aspect of recent Swansea City games is the number of results with a nil in them.

Taking their previous six matches before this one, in 5 of them a wager on "Both Teams to Score" would have been a loser.

A look at their previous results shows us that Swansea City:

• have not been beaten in the league by Oxford United in their last 4 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Oxford United

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Oxford United will come into the encounter following a 2-0 Championship win as they beat Sunderland in their previous outing.

In that game, Oxford United had 31% possession and 17 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Oxford United, the goalscorers were Ben Nelson (29') and Michał Helik (48'). For their opponents, Sunderland got 10 attempts at goal with 0 on target.

In 5 of the prior six games involving Oxford United, a relatively low number of goals have been struck between them and their opponents. The overall average goals scored per game in that spell comes to a mere 1.83, with the average goals for The U's standing at 1. That sort of trend won’t necessarily follow through into this next game, of course.

Their past results show that Oxford United:

• have left without a victory over Swansea City in games played away from home for the previous 4 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 06/01/2004 shows us that Swansea City have won 3 of these and Oxford United 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.

A sum of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 8 from The Swans and 6 created by The U's. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

The previous league match featuring these sides was Championship match day 13 on 02/11/2024 and the score finished Oxford United 1-2 Swansea City.

In that game, Oxford United managed 36% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Dane Scarlett (88').

On the other side, Swansea City had 16 shots at goal with 5 on target. Žan Vipotnik (38') and Florian Bianchini (80') scored.

The referee was Michael Salisbury.

🗞️ Team News: Swansea City

Kristian Pedersen (Hamstring injury) and Myles Peart-Harris (Back injury) are not available for Swansea City manager Alan Sheehan.

In our view, The Swans look set to line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for the game with Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Hannes Delcroix, Ben Cabango, Josh Tymon, Goncalo Franco, Joe Allen, Ronald Pereira, Lewis O'Brien, Ji-Sung Eom and Zan Vipotnik.

📰 Team News: Oxford United

We’re of the thinking that The U's seem likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Matt Ingram, Stanley Mills, Michal Helik, Ben Nelson, Gregory Leigh, Cameron Brannagan, Hidde ter Avest, Ole Romeny, Ruben Rodrigues, Tyler Goodrham and Alex Matos.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Oxford United have the firepower to score against this Swansea City lineup, but it realistically won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re going for a very close game with a 2-1 advantage for Swansea City when all is said and done. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 11:03 03/05/2025