Swansea vs Stoke City Match Analysis and Prediction

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Swansea City and Stoke City face each other in the third round of Championship in search of a victory that will help them achieve their goals in the campaign to the top flight. This match will go down in the Liberty stadium this Tuesday the 17^th August.

Swansea have lastly lost to Blackburn Rovers and have had a draw against Sheffield united. A different trend is seen with Stoke city winning against Reading and a draw against Birmingham but this will not prevent both teams from the desire to achieve victory.

The last time these teams faced off against each other in Championship, Swansea City was in 4th place while Stoke City was in the 11th place. Swansea City opened with a 3-5-2 arrangement while Stoke City charged with a 3-4-2-1 formation.

In this match both teams are at the same level of fitness and form and therefore, any team can win this match and that is what makes it especially attractive. We are sure that both teams will make everything they can to get a point or three.

Swansea are the homes favorites to win while Stoke city have had tremendous performances away managing to be away favorite victors.

Swansea vs Stoke head to head

Last season, Swansea won both home and away matches against Stoke city. In the last 10 meetings Swansea playing home, they have managed 6 victories and 1 draw. Stoke have managed only 3 victories. Currently Stoke haven’t lost any of their last 4 games. Coming into this clash, Stoke City are undefeated in their last 3 league matches away from home.

Stoke 1-2 Swansea 03/03/21
Swansea 2-0 Stoke 27/10/20
Stoke 2-0 Swansea 25/01/20
Swansea 1-2 Stoke 05/10/19
Swansea 3-1 Stoke 09/04/19

Home Team

Swansea 0-0 Sheffield
Reading 0-3 Swansea
Blackburn 2-1 Swansea
Forest Green 1-2 Swansea
Plymouth 1-2 Swansea

Away Team

Birmingham 0-0 Stoke
Stoke 2-1 Fleetwood
Stoke 3-2 Reading
Stoke 1-1 Wolverhampton
Wigan 2-1 Stoke

Swansea team news

Korey Smith, Wayne Routledge, Liam Walsh and Connor Roberts won’t be playing for Swansea City due to injuries. Flynn Downes the new signed player featured in the game against Sheffield and is expected to feature in this too.