Swansea v Sunderland Competition - Sky Bet Championship Venue - Swansea.com Stadium Date - 4 November 2023 Kick off - 3:00pm Following their hard fought 1-0 win away at Blackburn, next up for Michael Duff’s improving Swansea squad is a tricky looking home match against play-off hopefuls Sunderland. Established in 1879, Sunderland were one of the founding members of the Football League in 1890. They have been English champions on six occasions and victorious in the FA Cup twice, the most recent of those successes coming in 1973 when they produced one of the great shocks in the competition's history by beating Don Revie's Leeds United 1-0 at Wembley Stadium, whilst plying their trade in the second tier of the English pyramid. Last Saturday, Liam Cullen scored a first-half winner as the Swans got back on track with victory at inconsistent Blackburn Rovers. Cullen curled home in the 28th minute as the Swans bounced back from 2 successive home Championship defeats with three points at Ewood Park: a first victory there since 1971. Carl Rushworth made a couple of saves from Sammie Szmodics after the interval as Blackburn threatened an equaliser. However, the Swans kept Blackburn at bay, meaning that Rovers lost after three successive wins and are now 12th, one point and one place ahead of the Swans. Whilst the Swans were winning at Blackburn, Sunderland were coming from behind to beat City and end a three-match losing streak, while Norwich were falling to their sixth defeat from their last eight matches, taking just the one point from their past five Championship games. Hwang Ui-jo put the visitors ahead with his first Canaries goal but Trai Hume and Dan Neil turned the game around with two goals in quick succession before half-time. Jack Clarke's late penalty after some calamitous defending sealed the win for the Mackems, taking them to 8th place in the table, 1 point below the Play-Off places. The Swans have played Sunderland on 36 previous occasions, winning 12, losing 13 and drawing 11. In last season’s corresponding fixture, the Swans edged it with a 2-1 win: Turning to Saturday, Robert Madley () will be the man in charge - no Swans fan can forget the ‘ghost’ penalty that he gave against us to enable Stoke to snatch a 3-3 draw in a PL match 10 years ago next Friday. This will be the second time the west Yorkshire official – who has taken charge of more than 90 Premier League games – has overseen a Swans match this term. He was in the middle for a 1-1 draw with Coventry City at home in August. He handed out three yellow cards that day with Matt Grimes and Joe Allen booked for the Swans. So far this season, he has taken charge of eight league games, six in the Championship, one in League One, and one in the Premier League. He was also in charge of the all-Premier League Carabao Cup tie between Brentford and Bournemouth. In total this season, he has handed out 45 yellow cards and two reds. On Saturday, Madley will be assisted by Craig Taylor and Robert Merchant. Ben Atkinson will be the fourth official. As for Sunderland, playmaker Adil Aouchiche has missed Sunderland’s last two matches with a groin issue but has trained with the first-team group this week and could return to the squad to play the Swans. Eliezer Mayenda was also pictured in training this week and could be named on the bench for the first time this season following a hamstring injury. Defender Aji Alene has been out on the training pitches at the Academy of Light but is expected to play for the under-21s side as he returns from a thigh issue which required surgery over the summer. As for the Swans, long-term absentees, Josh Ginnelly, Joe Allen, Nathan Wood and Azeem Abdulai remain sidelined, although recent injuries to Kristian Pederson and Ben Cabango have cleared. As for the outcome, I’m going for a 1-2 win for Sunderland. Hope I’m wrong!
Thanks as always Taff. Well my Nov prediction is based on a home win so I am sticking with that. So it's a 2-1 home win
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Or seven. we see this as a tight game. If you attack us, we have the ability and pace to punish you. We tend to do better away from home as teams have come to our place and parked the bus and we have found that difficult to break them down. One key area for you will be how well your right back plays. Clarke will be a major threat down our left. He has some unbelievable stats. Leading goal scorer in the league, most completed dribbles in the league, most touches in the opponents box in the league. So whoever is up against him will have to on top of his game.
Swansea City head coach Michael Duff names an unchanged starting line-up and bench for this afternoon's Championship clash with Sunderland. The Swans boss keeps faith with the same squad that secured victory at Blackburn last time out. Carl Rushworth continues in goal and is set to make his 100th EFL appearance, with Harrison Ashby, Harry Darling, Bashir Humphreys and Josh Tymon making up the back four after their clean sheet in Lancashire. Skipper Matt Grimes and Charlie Patino are paired together in midfield, with Jamal Lowe, Jamie Paterson and Liam Cullen operating ahead of them. Jerry Yates leads the line for the hosts. Swansea City: Carl Rushworth, Harry Darling, Matt Grimes (captain), Jerry Yates, Jamal Lowe, Jamie Paterson, Josh Tymon, Charlie Patino, Liam Cullen, Harrison Ashby, Bashir Humphreys. Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Kristian Pedersen, Jay Fulton, Ben Cabango, Nathan Tjoe-A-On, Kyle Naughton, Liam Walsh, Ollie Cooper, Cameron Congreve. Sunderland: Anthony Patterson, Niall Huggins, Luke O'Nien (captain), Nazariy Rusyn, Dan Ballard, Patrick Roberts, Jack Clarke, Dan Neil, Trai Hume, Jobe Bellingham, Pierre Ekwah. Substitutes: Matthew Young, Jenson Seelt, Alex Pritchard, Luis Semedo, Abdoullah Ba, Dennis Cirkin, Mason Burstow, Bradley Dack, Adil Aouchiche.
My feed is really stop-start and I'm missing most of this but he really messed about taking that pen. Awful. And what a chance against the run of play.
We have played you off the park. You really needed that goal. I’d be gutted if we didn’t take the 3 points this game.
