Swansea City vs Southampton - prediction, team news, lineups

Southampton marque the travel to Swansea City connected Saturday day knowing that the doorway is unfastened to propulsion for automatic promotion to the Premier League.

At a clip erstwhile the Saints beryllium successful 4th presumption successful the Championship table, the Swans are successful 14th and inactive with the accidental to decorativeness wrong the apical 10 astatine the extremity of the season.

Match preview

In the abstraction of conscionable implicit a week, Southampton person gone from being focused connected securing a playoff spot to having the accidental to combat for automatic promotion.

Tuesday's 3-0 triumph implicit Blackburn Rovers came astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Ipswich Town, who presently inhabit second, mislaid 2-0 astatine Portsmouth.

The extremity effect is Southampton trailing the Tractor Boys by 3 points having played a crippled much than Kieran McKenna's side, yet the 2 teams are inactive to quadrate disconnected astatine St Mary's successful their penultimate fixture.

On a six-game winning streak successful the Championship and 18-match unbeaten tally successful each competitions, galore volition backmost Tonda Eckart's squad to propulsion disconnected what would beryllium a sensational promotion erstwhile they spent overmuch of the archetypal fractional of the play successful the bottommost fractional of the standings.

Their cleanable expanse against Blackburn was a invited boost. It was conscionable their 3rd shutout crossed an eight-match play successful each competitions.

Nevertheless, since January 21, Southampton person accumulated 39 points from 15 matches, 11 much points than immoderate different squad crossed that period.

As for Swansea, they volition relish different accidental to look a promotion contender connected location territory having precocious earned a 2-2 gully with Middlesbrough.

Vitor Matos' broadside are present connected a three-match unbeaten streak, helped by last weekend's 1-0 triumph astatine Leicester City.

Swansea present person 7 points from their past 4 distant fixtures, yet conscionable 1 triumph has travel from their astir caller 4 encounters astatine the Swansea.com Stadium.

Trailing ninth presumption by conscionable 1 point, Matos and his squad volition person ambitions of a top-10 finish. Swansea's highest finishing presumption crossed the past 4 seasons is 10th place.

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Team News

Matos volition contemplate whether to support Leo Walta successful midfield for conscionable his 3rd Championship commencement oregon bring Goncalo Franco backmost into his Swansea XI.

Joel Ward is besides successful contention for a commencement astatine right-back, but Eom Ji-Sung volition beryllium assessed aft picking up a fittingness contented against Leicester.

Josh Key and Ethan Galbraith are some expected to stay sidelined for this contest.

Meanwhile, Eckart is apt to rotate his Southampton starting lineup yet again, with Flynn Downes and Leo Scienza some expected to return.

With Kuryu Matsuki and Finn Azaz some fittingness doubts, Cameron Archer could diagnostic arsenic a fig 10, portion Ross Stewart is pushing to regenerate Cyle Larin.

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:

Vigouroux; Parker, Cabango, Burgess, Tymon; Nunes, Walta, Stamenic, Eom; Widell; Vipotnik

Southampton imaginable starting lineup:

Peretz; Bree, Harwood-Bellis, Stephens, Manning; Downes, Charles; Fellows, Archer, Scienza; Stewart

We say: Swansea City 1-2 Southampton

Having enactment unneurotic a three-game unbeaten streak, Swansea volition fancy their chances of upsetting the likelihood connected Saturday. However, it is intolerable to backmost against Southampton successful Championship action, starring america to foretell a hard-fought triumph for the Saints.

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