Swansea City vs Blackburn Rovers - prediction, team news, lineups

By Darren Plant | 29 Oct 2026 11:50, Last updated: 29 Oct 2026 11:51

Swansea City play big to Blackburn Rovers connected Saturday day looking for the triumph that they whitethorn request to enactment successful the apical 2 of the Championship table.

Meanwhile, 10th-placed Blackburn marque the agelong travel to South Wales knowing that triumph volition determination them to wrong 2 points of their opponents.

Match preview

Everyone astatine Swansea would person accepted 2nd successful the part aft 12 matches had it been offered to them earlier the commencement of the season.

However, suffering back-to-back defeats volition interest Vitor Matos, peculiarly losing 5-0 astatine Queens Park Rangers past weekend.

Swansea had conceded conscionable 8 goals successful 11 matches anterior to shipping 3 goals wrong the archetypal 15 minutes successful West London.

Nevertheless, contempt that effect astatine QPR, Swansea stay with the joint-fourth champion antiaircraft grounds successful the division, with conscionable 3 goals being conceded successful six location fixtures.

Despite lone losing erstwhile - to West Ham United - crossed that period, Swansea person scored a measly 7 goals, thing that volition request to amended if they are to enactment successful the apical two.

As 1 of the pre-season relegation favourites, Blackburn's precedence remains staying successful the Championship, but Tony Mowbray has kept the nine successful the speech for a astonishment promotion charge.

Thirteen points from their past six games person near Blackburn sitting conscionable 7 points down leaders Middlesbrough.

Most notably for the clip being, Rovers are 3 points adrift of 5th aft a 2-0 triumph implicit Wrexham past weekend.

Six points person been accumulated from arsenic galore distant fixtures, albeit their 2 defeats astatine Preston North End and West Bromwich Albion coming by one-goal margins.

Swansea City Championship form:

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Team News

Matos indispensable determine however to respond to the five-goal decision astatine QPR, with changes apt to beryllium made to his Swansea XI.

Jay Fulton, Eom Ji-sung and Jan Viptonik are each successful contention for recalls successful midfield and attack.

Jenson Seelt whitethorn besides diagnostic successful the mediate of the backline, but Josh Key, Moussa Yeo and Ronald are expected to miss retired done injury.

Blackburn volition beryllium forced into astatine slightest 1 alteration courtesy of Sam Morsy serving a one-match prohibition for 5 yellowish cards.

Jake Garrett is expected to travel into the midfield arsenic a consecutive replacement successful what whitethorn beryllium to beryllium the lone alteration made by Mowbray.

Adam Forshaw, Ryoya Morishita and Yuki Ohashi are among the Rovers subordinate who stay sidelined done injury.

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:

Vigouroux; Lissah, Seelt, Cabango, Tymon; Stamenic; Eom, Just, Eustaquio, Widell; Vipotnik

Blackburn Rovers imaginable starting lineup:

Toth; Alebiosu, Carter, McLoughlin, Pickering; Garrett, Baradji; Fevrier, Cantwell, Afolayan; Gudjohnsen

We say: Swansea City 1-1 Blackburn Rovers

While Swansea ideally request a triumph to get backmost connected track, they are facing opponents who stay arsenic the astonishment bundle successful the division. Growing successful confidence, we expect Blackburn to gain a stock of the spoils arsenic a bare minimum.

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