📊 Form Guide

Swansea City

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Swansea City won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 2-0 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Middlesbrough.

In that game, Swansea City managed 61% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Middlesbrough had 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. Emmanuel Latte Lath (45', 79') was the scorer for Middlesbrough.

It’s been all too rare in recent games where Swansea City have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Swansea City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 5 goals during that time.

Heading into this fixture, Swansea City have left without a victory over Stoke City in their last 5 league matches.

Stoke City

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In their previous fixture, Stoke City drew 2-2 in the Championship match with West Bromwich Albion.

In that match, Stoke City managed 58% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For Stoke City, the scorers were Million Manhoef (68') and André Vidigal (78'). West Bromwich Albion had 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Mikey Johnston (24') and Jed Wallace (57') scored for West Bromwich Albion.

Steven Schumacher's Stoke City have fired home a total of 7 times throughout their previous sextet of matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period comes to 6.

Their past results show that Stoke City:

• remain undefeated by Swansea City when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings dating back to 03/03/2021 shows us that Swansea City have won 1 of these and Stoke City 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

A combined total of 18 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 6 of them from The Swans and 12 for The Potters. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Championship match day 21 on 12/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Stoke City 1-1 Swansea City.

On that occasion, Stoke City managed 43% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Daniel Johnson (70').

For their opponents, Swansea City had 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Harry Darling (89') was the scorer.

The referee was David Webb.

ℹ️ Team News: Swansea City

The Swansea City manager Luke Williams will be grateful not to have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash thanks to a completely healthy group available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Stoke City

Due to a mostly available squad, there’s only the sole fitness worry for the Stoke City boss Steven Schumacher to be concerned about. Frank Fielding (unknown injury) won’t be playing here.

💡 Prediction

In our opinion, Stoke City could find themselves struggling to score against this Swansea City side who we reckon should just have the edge.

We’re therefore expecting a good tussle with a 1-0 winning margin for Swansea City at full-time.

There should be little in it.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 18:10 10/04/2024