Swansea v Preston Competition - Sky Bet Championship Venue - Swansea.com Stadium Date - 19 April 2023 Kick off - 7:45pm Following their 1-0 home victory over Huddersfield, next up for Russell Martin’s in-form Swansea squad is a home match against Play-Off hopefuls Preston. Last Saturday, Neil Warnock's Huddersfield Town revival suffered a setback as the relegation-threatened Terriers were beaten 1-0 at the Swansea.com Stadium. Ryan Manning's deflected shot secured deserved victory for a Swansea side who have found late-season form. Huddersfield's first defeat in six games leaves them a point outside the Championship relegation zone in 19th. Swansea remain in mid-table, rising to 13th place, having stretched their unbeaten run to five matches. Russell Martin's team have taken 13 points from the last 15 on offer to pull clear of a potential relegation scrap in some style. However, Huddersfield remain firmly in the fight to stay up with just four games of their traumatic campaign to come. Whilst the Swans were beating the Terriers, the match between Play-Off challengers Millwall and Preston, saw Millwall record a first win in five games to dent Preston North End's bid for a top six spot in the Championship. Tom Bradshaw ended the Lions' four-match goal drought to head the south-east London side in front in the opening 15 minutes with his 15th goal of the campaign. Home goalkeeper George Long made several saves to preserve the lead, including a fine double stop to deny Josh Onomah and Tom Cannon. Zian Flemming made it 2-0 with 18 minutes remaining when he fired in on the half-volley after Jake Cooper had flicked on Scott Malone's free-kick. Victory gives fifth-placed Millwall a three-point buffer to seventh-placed Coventry City, who were leapfrogged by Blackburn who drew 0-0 with Hull in Saturday's late kick-off. The Swans have played Preston on 68 previous occasions, winning 27, drawing 18 and losing 23. Arguably, the most notable fixture took place in 1981 when the Swans secured promotion to the First Division at Deepdale, whilst consigning Nobby Stiles’ Preston to relegation to the Third Division: In the corresponding fixture last season, the Swans ran out 1-0 winners: Turning to Wednesday, I’m going for a 1-1 draw
Before Matron arrives with my medication I'm going to say 1 - 0 to the Swans. Whibble whibble! Nice write up as always Taff
The season befre the promotion in 1981 you played us at Deepdale drew 0-0 and spent the entire second half passing back to the keeper, nearly completed match thread and as it's a 490 round trip in midweek will be on the coach that leaves at 11.45 am
Oliver Langford will be the man in charge when Swansea City host Preston North End at the Swansea.com Stadium on Wednesday night (7.45pm). It will be the third time the official from the west Midlands has travelled to SA1 this season as he took charge of the Swans home matches against QPR in September and Burnley in January. Across those two matches, he handed out 11 yellow cards. Six of those cards went to Swans players with Joel Piroe, Matt Grimes, Jamie Paterson, Harry Darling, Joel Latibeaudiere and Joe Allen all cautioned this term. Having been refereeing since 1995, Langford was promoted to the List of Referees in 2008. When Select Group 2 was introduced by PGMOL ahead of the 2016-17 season, he was one of 18 referees added to that list. He has taken charge of two play-off semi-finals and the 2017 FA Youth Cup final. Despite not being named a Select Group Official, he is VAR trained and can be part of the officiating team at the top level. The match will mark the 12th time Langford has overseen a Swans game with all of those games coming in the Championship. On Wednesday, he will be assisted by Greg Read and Mark Russell. Andy Woolmer (Steve Cooper’s favourite ref … NOT ) will be the fourth official.
https://www.not606.com/threads/swansea-city-swansea-com-stadium-19-4-23.406437/#post-16641230 Usually do a match report but will be late on Thursday when I return to the land of the living after a good day's kip
Good effort for a midweek game. Safe journey. Thanks the write up Taff. My 1-1 forecast for Huddersfield was wrong so will stick with it for this one. PNE will score first then we will wake up second half and Ben nods home.
