Blackburn go to Swansea full of confidence after their home win against Queens Park Rangers last weekend. New manager Jon Dahl Tomasson see’s little threat from Swansea even if they do retain possession. He believes his team are better at it and has no concerns at all regards the swans approach play.
Russell Martin is already being scrutinised in some quarters but he too see’s todays challenge positively. "We have a real chance to have an impact on this league in some way, but it has to be in a different way to most. If you look at the teams who went up last year, huge budgets, huge financial power, they signed a lot of players who are used to being at the top of this level and the level above. We just can’t do that. We have to do it differently. That means having a really clear way of doing things, a way of behaving, a way of training, a way of playing, with a group of people that really believe in it. We have definitely got that here. It’s going to take that — when you haven’t got certain capabilities, you need everything else. The supporters get it, you can sense that when you talk to them and in the backing they have given us and the team”
Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers team news is in ! .
Swansea City: Andy Fisher; Nathan Wood, Kyle Naughton, Harry Darling; Joel Latibeaudiere, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Ryan Manning; Joel Piroe, Olivier Ntcham, Michael Obafemi.
Substitutes: Steven Benda, Ben Cabango, Jamie Paterson, Matty Sorinola, Ollie Cooper, Cameron Congreve, Liam Cullen.
Blackburn Rovers: Thomas Kaminski, Callum Brittain, Harry Pickering, Daniel Ayala, Sammie Szmodics, Sam Gallagher, Scott Wharton, Ryan Hedges, John Buckley, Ben Brereton Diaz, Lewis Travis (captain).
Substitutes: Aynsley Pears, Tayo Edun, Bradley Dack, Tyler Morton, Jack Vale, Ash Phillips, Tyrhys Dolan.
Referee: Stephen Martin.