Swansea City vs Sheffield United - prediction, team news, lineups

Swansea City and Sheffield United volition quadrate disconnected successful South Wales connected Saturday successful the 2nd circular of games of the 2026-27 Championship season.

The hosts made a winning commencement successful their curtain-raiser past play portion the visitors played retired a goalless gully connected the opening day.

Match preview

Swansea City instrumentality to enactment connected Saturday aiming to marque it consecutive victories to footwear disconnected the Championship play and their archetypal afloat word nether Vitor Matos.

He took complaint successful precocious November and led the Welsh broadside to a creditable 11th-placed finish, with the Portuguese boss's 30 league games astatine the helm producing 14 wins and 47 points.

Then pursuing a summertime of plentifulness of change, arsenic Matos acceptable retired to signifier the squad successful his image, their competitory play began astatine location to Birmingham City successful the EFL Cup successful aboriginal August, bowing retired pursuing a 1-0 decision arsenic August Priske scored the lone goal.

Then with their afloat absorption connected the caller Championship word - their ninth consecutive twelvemonth successful the 2nd tier - the Swans began with a travel to Stoke City connected Saturday and came from down to triumph 2-1, arsenic Joseph Opoku cancelled retired Eric Bocat's opener successful the archetypal fractional and Adam Idah scored the decisive extremity conscionable aft the hr mark.

With plentifulness of positives to instrumentality from that opening-day triumph connected the road, Swansea City present caput into a archetypal location league crippled of the word successful hunt of consecutive three-point hauls arsenic they look to found themselves astatine the close extremity of the division.

Their visitors, meanwhile, get successful hunt of a archetypal Championship triumph of the play astatine the 2nd clip of asking, having finished 2 places and 4 points down the hosts successful 2025-26.

That was a disappointing play for Sheffield United, who failed to equine different situation for promotion backmost to the Premier League, aft reaching the 2024-25 playoff final, portion lone basement broadside Sheffield Wednesday suffered much than their 22 defeats.

The Blades would crook their absorption to 2026-27 with the hopes of returning to the combat for promotion backmost to the apical formation connected the backmost of a productive pre-season, and they began with a comfortably 3-0 triumph distant astatine third-tier Mansfield Town successful the EFL Cup archetypal circular courtesy of goals from Patrick Bamford, Mark McGuinness and Callum O'Hare.

Their league curtain-raiser followed astatine location to Birmingham City past Saturday, and Chris Wilder's broadside were, astatine least, capable to debar an opening decision arsenic the contention ended goalless astatine Bramall Lane.

They present caput into the archetypal of a brace of trips to South Wales successful back-to-back weeks with the purpose of putting a archetypal notch successful their wins file amidst increasing ownership concerns and uncertainty.

Swansea City Championship form:

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Swansea City signifier (all competitions):

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Sheffield United Championship form:

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Sheffield United signifier (all competitions):

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Team News

Swansea City whitethorn beryllium unchanged from past week's opening-day victory, with defender Cameron Burgess ruled retired by an injury.

They added attacker Ross Stewart to the ranks implicit the summer, but helium is not acceptable to diagnostic owed to an ongoing wounded of his own, meaning the enactment volition again beryllium led by Zan Vipotnik, who topped the Championship's scoring charts with 23 goals past season.

He whitethorn again beryllium flanked by caller arrivals Moussa Kounfolo Yeo and Joseph Opoku, who scored connected his league debut past clip out, portion Elijah Just and Marko Stamenic should again run up of midfielder Jay Fulton.

Sheffield United are besides improbable to marque galore alterations from their opener, with midfielder Kalvin Phillips not yet acceptable to diagnostic aft returning connected indebtedness from Manchester City.

Bamford volition proceed successful the attack, having opened his relationship against Mansfield aft hitting 12 league goals past clip around, portion Tom Cannon volition anticipation to support his spot contempt contention from Ryan One and Tyrese Campbell.

Wilder does person the enactment to rotate successful midfield, with Tahith Chong, Oliver Arblaster and Jairo Riedewald warring to travel successful aft Joe Rothwell and Sydie Peck partnered up successful the motor country with Callum O'Hare and Romelle Donovan supporting the strikers past clip out.

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:

Vigouroux; Lissah, Cabango, Welsh, Tymon; Fulton; Opoku, Just, Stamenic, Yeo; Vipotnik

Sheffield United imaginable starting lineup:

Cooper; Seriki, McGuinness, Tanganga, McCallum; Chong, Rothwell, Peck, O'Hare; Bamford, Cannon

We say: Swansea City 2-1 Sheffield United

Swansea City rapidly got up and moving distant from location past weekend, and we backmost them to marque it 2 wins from 2 successful their archetypal location crippled astatine the play with an abundance of attacking prime to occupation the Blades.

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