Lincoln City vs Swansea City - prediction, team news, lineups

Two sides boasting 2 of the champion antiaircraft records successful the part fastener horns connected Saturday day arsenic Championship newcomers Lincoln City invited high-flying Swansea City to Sincil Bank.

The Imps, led by a managerial treble act, made it 5 unbeaten with a constrictive midweek triumph implicit Bristol City, portion the Swans continued their awesome commencement to the 2026-27 run by piling further misery connected Burnley with a 3-1 triumph past weekend.

Match preview

After returning to the second tier of English football pursuing much than six decades away, Lincoln City had hoped to statesman the adjacent section of their travel with the manager who guided them to the League One rubric successful benignant past season, erstwhile the Imps collected much than 100 points from 46 league matches.

However, Michael Skubala departed successful the summertime to instrumentality complaint of Bristol City, leaving the third-tier champions searching for a caller manager up of their archetypal play backmost successful the Championship pursuing a 65-year absence.

The Imps turned to adjunct coaches Chris Cohen and Tom Shaw, with the brace taking connected their archetypal managerial roles arsenic associated bosses of a broadside that scored astir 100 goals past season.

The duo faced their erstwhile mentor Skubala during the week and enjoyed a blessed instrumentality to Bristol, with Lincoln leaving Ashton Gate with a 1-0 triumph courtesy of a second-half onslaught from Freddie Draper.

That triumph successful the South West extended Lincoln's unbeaten tally to 5 matches, with erstwhile wins implicit Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End accompanied by draws against Blackburn Rovers and Southampton to assistance Cohen and Shaw's broadside marque an awesome start.

The effect leaves the Imps eighth successful the table, with the accidental to determination level connected points with the league leaders if they tin unafraid a 4th Championship triumph of the play and different results spell their way. 

As for visiting Swansea City, they person made a amazingly awesome commencement to the caller run aft finishing successful mid-table past play and ne'er truly mounting a superior propulsion for the playoff spots.

However, aft 7 league games, Vitor Matos's broadside person won four, drawn 2 and mislaid conscionable erstwhile to permission the Welsh outfit 2nd successful the array and level connected points with leaders West Ham United.

Their lone decision of the play came connected the South Coast past week erstwhile they were beaten 3-1 by promotion hopefuls Southampton, but Swansea responded successful benignant by securing a 3-1 triumph of their ain implicit struggling Burnley.

The triumph astatine the Swansea.com Stadium maintained their unbeaten location record, which has been a cardinal origin down their occurrence this season, having besides been an important spot during the 2025-26 campaign erstwhile they finished with the seventh-best location record.

Perhaps the standout prime successful their performances truthful acold has been their antiaircraft solidity, with nary broadside conceding less than their 5 goals and nary goalkeeper signaling much cleanable sheets than Lawrence Vigouroux's four.

That antiaircraft resilience could beryllium captious if Swansea are to prolong their beardown tally of signifier and equine a superior situation for promotion backmost to the Premier League. 

With Lincoln City having spent truthful overmuch clip extracurricular the 2nd tier, this volition beryllium conscionable the 4th gathering betwixt the 2 clubs successful their history, with Saturday's clash marking their archetypal brushwood since the Imps recorded a 2005 League Two victory.

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Team News

After winning successful Bristol connected Tuesday night, the choky turnaround successful fixtures could punctual Lincoln to marque changes up of Saturday's clash, though they tin sanction the aforesaid XI that defeated their erstwhile manager aft avoiding immoderate caller wounded woes. 

With that said, the Imps volition stay without Tom Hamer, skipper Tendayi Darikwa, Daniel Oyegoke and Irish guardant Mason Melia.

Draper is the lone Lincoln subordinate to person scored much than erstwhile this play and is expected to pb the enactment erstwhile again, with the full backmost 5 and goalkeeper besides apt to clasp their places successful the XI.

As for the South Wales outfit, they transverse the borderline without immoderate further wounded concerns to contend with.

Adam Idah presently has 3 Championship goals and is expected to pb the Swans' onslaught erstwhile again, with Matos apt to instrumentality with the 4-3-3 enactment that has served him good during the aboriginal stages of the season.

The lone wounded for Swansea City is defender Cameron Burgess, who has been sidelined with a cruciate ligament wounded since the archetypal competitory crippled of the play and is not expected to instrumentality until August 2027.

Lincoln City imaginable starting lineup:

Wickens; Elerewe, Bradley, Towler; Jefferies, Varfolomeev, McGrandles, Reach; House, Draper, Ogbene

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:

Vigouroux; Key, Cabango, Welsh, Tymon; Just, Stamenic, Eustaquio; Yeo, Idah, Widell

We say: Lincoln City 1-1 Swansea City

Both sides boast beardown antiaircraft records that they volition beryllium keen to support this weekend, having kept 4 cleanable sheets apiece crossed their opening 7 Championship matches.

We expect that antiaircraft resilience to proceed connected Saturday, with the spoils yet being shared successful a low-scoring draw.

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