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Competition - Sky Bet Championship
Venue - Swansea.com Stadium
Date - 8 March 2025
Kick off - 3pm
Following their hard fought 0-0 away at Preston, next up for Alan Sheehan’s Swansea squad is a tricky looking home fixture against Play-Off hopefuls Middlesbrough.
Last Tuesday evening, the Swans were successful in putting more distance between themselves and the relegation places with a draw at Preston.
Milutin Osmajic wasted the best chance of the night, scuffing wide of the target when he seemed certain to score early in the second half.
Eom Ji-Sung went closest for the Swans with a free-kick, but it was Preston who were left frustrated by the stalemate having looked the more likely winners for long periods.
Preston's 16th league draw of the season means they are without a win in four second-tier games.
They remain 15th in the table, nine points adrift of the top six with 11 league matches remaining.
The Swans are two points worse off in 16th, with the gap to the bottom three now standing at 10 points.
While the Welsh side's performance was unconvincing at times, the result made this a decent night for caretaker boss Alan Sheehan, who has four points from two games since the departure of Luke Williams last month.
Last Saturday, Finn Azaz's late goal sent relegation-threatened Derby County bottom of the Championship as they lost 1-0 at Middlesbrough.
Azaz had the best first-half chance when he hit the post with a left-footed shot from the edge of the box shortly before half-time as the hosts struggled to break down a compact Rams side.
Boro's Morgan Whittaker forced a good save from Jacob Widell Zetterstrom midway through the second half.
But just as it seemed new Derby boss John Eustace would get his first point since taking over, Azaz fired in from 12 yards.
Boro's first back-to-back wins since November eased the pressure on boss Michael Carrick and saw them move up to eighth in the Championship, two points off the play-offs having slipped out of the top six after five successive losses last month.
The Swans have played Boro on 57 previous occasions, winning 19, drawing 12 and losing 26.
In the corresponding fixture last season, Boro ran out 1-2 winners:
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Turning to tomorrow, with ex-Swan Morgan Whittaker in the Boro team - and recognising what invariably happens when we face former players - the Swans will need to score at least 2 to win.
Whilst I’m hopeful that we can put in a performance similar to the one against Blackburn, I think that the match will end in a 2-2 draw: 5pts for Sheehan from 3 matches wouldn’t be too shabby
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