West Brom v Swansea Competition - Sky Bet Championship Venue - The Hawthorns Date - 31 August 2024 Kick off - 3pm Following their woeful performance against League One Wycombe, next up for Luke Williams’ Swansea squad is the daunting prospect of a visit to the Midlands to play Play-Off hopefuls West Brom. On Wednesday evening, Wycombe shocked the Swans in the Carabao Cup as a first-half strike from Richard Kone earned the visitors a fully deserved 1-0 win in the second round. Following on from their 2-0 home win at Northampton in the first round, Matt Bloomfield's League One side were full value for their upset win as they booked their place in Round 3 for just the third time in the club's history. Kieran Sadlier had already missed a golden chance to put them ahead, firing wide with his left foot after going through, when five minutes before the break Kone made no mistake from close range after being teed up by Matt Butcher. Swansea, who made eight changes from the derby draw with Cardiff on Sunday, barely threatened and remarkably (or perhaps not so ) failed to register a single shot on target. With the Baggies having lost at Fleetwood in the 1st Round of the Carabao Cup, they haven’t played since their impressive 2-1 away victory at Stoke last Saturday when they made it two Championship away wins out of two as they just edged Stoke City in the Midlands derby in the Potteries. Winger Tom Fellows was the architect of victory, crossing for Karlan Grant to head their opener before setting up Josh Maja for the winner, after Stoke had briefly levelled. Home debutant Lewis Koumas netted for the Potters and the lively Liverpool loan man also hit the woodwork twice - the first of them coming in a mad six first-half minutes when goals and chances came at either end. After an absolute humdinger of a first half, the game slightly fizzled out in the second period. But Albion had still done enough to make it seven points from their first three matches, while for Stoke it was back-to-back league defeats. The Swans have played the Baggies on 51 previous occasions, winning 23, losing 18 and drawing the other 10 matches. In the corresponding fixture last season, the Baggies ran out 3-2 winners with the Swans fighting back from a 3 goal deficit to lose by the odd goal in 5: Turning to tomorrow, given that they’ve had a full week off and recognising that this will be the Swans’ 3rd matches since Sunday, I can see nothing other than a comfortable home win: 2-0 to West Brom. Hope I’m wrong
Cumbrian official Anthony Backhouse has been appointed the referee for the Championship game between West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City on Saturday afternoon. The referee will be taking charge of his very first Swansea away game, having only been promoted to the Select Group 2 list of officials for the start of the last season. He previously refereed the Swans 1-3 home defeat against Leicester last season. He will be assisted by Jonathan Hunt and Hristo Karaivanov, with the ‘infamous’ Bobby Madley as the fourth official.
2-2 us . Can't see where our 2 goals are coming from so 2 pens n a couple of red cards for them maybe ?
Swansea City has completed the signing of Myles Peart-Harris on loan from Brentford, subject to international clearance. The 21-year-old will spend the remainder of the 2024-25 season with the Swans, and has been handed the number 25 shirt. Peart-Harris’ signing has been completed in time for him to be involved in Saturday’s Championship fixture against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns.
Thanks Taff. It's probably going to take 6 to 8 games to get a settled team. On that basis I will be pleased with a point. So it's 1-1 for me.
I can’t even dream anything here - 3 goal victory for WBA. Come on Swans - prove Wednesday was a blip.
