Preview: Swansea City vs. Luton Town - prediction, team news, lineups

Swansea City volition beryllium aiming to marque it successive wins successful the Championship erstwhile they proceed their run with a location fixture against Luton Town connected Sunday afternoon.

The Welsh outfit are presently 10th successful the Championship table, boasting 30 points from their opening 23 matches of the season, portion Luton are 18th, lone six points extracurricular of the relegation zone, having had an underwhelming play to date.

Match preview

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Swansea bounced backmost from successive losses to Sunderland and Hull City by beating QPR connected Boxing Day, with Liam Cullen netting a brace successful a three-goal occurrence successful Wales.

The triumph moved Luke Williams' broadside onto 30 points from 23 matches, which has near them successful 10th spot successful the table, 7 points disconnected the playoff spots successful England's 2nd tier.

Swansea person underwhelmed connected location ungraded this season, winning four, drafting 4 and losing 3 of their 11 matches to cod 16 points, but they volition beryllium welcoming a Luton outfit with the third-worst distant record.

Indeed, the Hatters person lone won 1 of their 11 Championship matches distant from their ain stadium this season, suffering 9 defeats successful the process, which is simply a grounds that volition manus the hosts confidence.

Swansea are really winless successful their past 5 matches against Luton, suffering 3 defeats successful the process, but the brace played retired a 1-1 gully erstwhile they met astatine Kenilworth Road successful the reverse fixture earlier this month.

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Luton were relegated from the Premier League past play successful 18th position, and determination is nary getting distant from the information that it has been a pugnacious run to day for the Hatters.

Rob Edwards' broadside person a grounds of 7 wins, 4 draws and 12 defeats from their 23 matches, which has near them successful 18th spot successful the array connected 25 points, conscionable six points extracurricular of the relegation zone.

Luton are 12 points disconnected the playoffs, meanwhile, truthful it is going to instrumentality immoderate effort for them to situation for an contiguous instrumentality to the Premier League for the 2025-26 campaign.

The Hatters volition participate this contention disconnected the backmost of a 1-0 decision astatine Bristol City, and they are connected a tally of 8 consecutive distant defeats successful the Championship, which is an denotation of their issues distant from their ain stadium.

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Team News

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Swansea did not endure immoderate caller fittingness concerns successful their clash with QPR past clip out, truthful caput manager Williams is expected to person the aforesaid squad disposable for enactment successful this contest.

Kristian Pedersen, Joe Allen and Ollie Cooper are presently the 3 first-team players connected the sidelines, but each of the changes that occurred against QPR were tactical substitutions.

Cullen has been successful beardown signifier this season, scoring 8 times successful the Championship, and the 25-year-old volition erstwhile again diagnostic successful a guardant presumption for the Welsh outfit.

As for Luton, Amari'i Bell, Shandon Baptiste, Teden Mengi, Reece Burke, Tom Lockyer, Alfie Doughty and Reuell Walters volition again miss the contention owed to wounded problems, portion Liam Walsh is inactive suspended.

Carlton Morris and Elijah Adebayo person scored 11 times betwixt them during the 2024-25 campaign, and the brace volition proceed successful the last 3rd of the tract for the visitors this weekend.

Jordan Clark has 3 goals and 2 assists from midfield, meanwhile, and helium volition beryllium different starter for the Hatters.

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:
Vigouroux; Key, Cabango, Darling, Tymon; Franco, Grimes; Ronald, Cullen, Ji-Sung; Bianchini

We say: Swansea City 2-1 Luton Town

Luton's distant signifier is truthful mediocre that it is hard to backmost them contempt the evident prime successful their squad; the Hatters should springiness their fans a extremity to cheer, but we are expecting the hosts to unafraid each 3 points connected Sunday.

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