Millwall vs Swansea City - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to physique connected their awesome commencement to the 2026-27 Championship season, Swansea City question crossed the borderline to the English superior connected Tuesday nighttime to instrumentality connected chap promotion hopefuls Millwall.

Alex Neil's broadside returned to enactment pursuing the extended planetary interruption with a constrictive 1-0 triumph implicit Preston North End, portion the Swans came from down to bushed Norwich City 2-1 successful South Wales.

Match preview

After closing retired September with a tally of 3 league games without a win, including back-to-back 2-2 draws, Millwall returned to enactment with a triumph implicit struggling Preston North End.

The 3 points astatine Deepdale, against a broadside nether caller management, marked their archetypal triumph successful implicit a month, ending a tally without triumph successful each competitions since their 4-0 triumph implicit Bolton astatine the commencement of September.

Despite collecting conscionable 2 points from their erstwhile 3 league matches, the triumph successful Lancashire, secured by Camiel Neghli's 3rd extremity successful 5 games, was capable to assistance the Lions backmost into the playoff places.

Another triumph connected Tuesday could spot them ascent to 3rd successful the table.

However, if Neil's broadside are to equine different superior promotion situation aft suffering a achy decision successful past season's playoff semi-finals, they volition request to tighten up defensively.

While Millwall's 16 goals scored fertile among the champion attacking records successful the Championship, with lone 2 sides uncovering the nett much often, their 15 goals conceded correspond the worst antiaircraft grounds among the existent apical fractional and the fourth-worst wide successful the division.

As for the visitors, Swansea City, led by Vitor Matos, caput to The Den sitting top of the table aft winning six, drafting 2 and losing conscionable 1 of their opening 9 league matches.

If the Swans tin unafraid a seventh triumph successful 10 games connected Tuesday night, they could determination 5 points wide of 2nd spot up of adjacent weekend's fixtures.

Their latest triumph came connected Saturday astatine the Swansea.com Stadium, wherever second-half goals from Moussa Yeo and Adam Idah helped Matos's broadside retrieve from a extremity down to assertion a 3rd consecutive triumph and support their presumption astatine the summit.

It was besides the 2nd successive lucifer successful which Swansea had travel from down to unafraid each 3 points, underlining the resilience they volition anticipation tin assistance thrust their bid to instrumentality to the Premier League.

Unlike their upcoming opponents, the Swans person built their awesome commencement connected a coagulated antiaircraft foundation, conceding conscionable 7 goals each season, a grounds unmatched by immoderate different broadside successful the division.

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Team News

Millwall caput into their 10th crippled of the play without immoderate caller wounded concerns and could sanction the aforesaid starting XI that featured connected Saturday.

However, Neil volition beryllium without Mathis Servais, who sustained an wounded during the planetary interruption and consequently missed the travel to Deepdale.

Neghli's awesome caller signifier successful beforehand of goal, coupled with his 2 league assists, should spot him clasp his spot retired wide, portion nine apical scorer Lyndon Dykes is besides expected to start.

Yeo's equaliser astatine the play took his tally to 3 goals successful arsenic galore consecutive appearances for the Swans, and helium is expected to diagnostic from the commencement for the eighth clip this season.

Republic of Ireland planetary Idah would person been hoping to physique connected his 4 goals, but helium was forced disconnected aboriginal done wounded against Norwich.

Should helium miss out, Zan Vipotnik is the astir apt campaigner to travel into the starting XI.

Josh Key and Cameron Burgess are again expected to stay sidelined, alongside Stephen Eustaquio, who picked up an wounded portion connected planetary work with Canada earlier this month.

Millwall imaginable starting lineup:

Marschall; Leonard, Taylor, Cooper, Sturge; Mazou-Sacko, Metcalfe; Lisbie, Dykes, Neghli; Arconte

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:

Vigouroux; Lissah, Cabango, Welsh, Tymon; G. Franco, Fulton, Widell; Yeo, Vipotnik, Opoku

We say: Millwall 1-1 Swansea City

With some sides looking to support their beardown starts and fortify their promotion bids, taking points against chap playoff contenders could beryllium crucial.

Swansea person shown wherefore they beryllium apical of the array and person mislaid conscionable erstwhile each season, but Millwall's location vantage could assistance the Lions unafraid a invaluable constituent against the league leaders.

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