Team News : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City
Swansea City take on Blackburn Rovers at 3pm (UK time) today in the EFL Championship at Ewood Park. A welcome return for club football fans as the roads and motorways are again full of expectant supporters, literally thousand and thousands of them.
Team news is in -
Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux; Josh Key, Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Josh Tymon; Matt Grimes (captain), Gonçalo Franco, Ollie Cooper; Ronald, Liam Cullen, Florian Bianchini.
Substitutes: Jon McLaughlin, Jay Fulton, Joe Allen, Žan Vipotnik, Nathan Tjoe-A-On, Myles Peart-Harris, Kyle Naughton, Nelson Abbey, Azeem Abdulai.
Blackburn Rovers: Aynsley Pears, Dominic Hyam, Sondre Tronstad, Todd Cantwell, Makhtar Gueye, Tyrhys Dolan, Joe Rankin-Costello, Hayden Carter, Ryan Hedges, Owen Beck, Lewis Travis (captain).
Substitutes: Balazs Toth, Callum Brittain, Harry Pickering, Arnor Sigurdsson, Andreas Weimann, Danny Batth, John Buckley, Yuki Ohashi, Lewis Baler.
Swans head coach, Luke Williams will be without Josh Ginnelly, who has been out now for thirteen months. Sam Parker is recovering from a recent heavy cold and was instructed to stay at home and hasn’t trained over the past four days. Eom is out for the foreseeable due to his MCL injury which we monitored from the time he was injured with the direct help of journalists in South Korea.
Here’s a conclusion ⚽️ Eom explained
Aimar Govea scored for the U21 side on Thursday at West Bromwich Albion, and it is unlikely he will feature this week. The good news there is of course his return from injury and it seems to fitness. With Parker and Govea out of the mix, Kyrell Wilson, a regular goalscorer for the U21 side is back after a long absence and scoring goals. He didn’t play on Thursday, so has Luke Williams woken up to the fact a goalscorer is right in front of him ?
Kristian Pedersen is back in training, he has been out for a while and we don’t expect him to be included today. Pedersen is one of the Swans highest earners, signed by recently sacked, Sporting Director, Paul Watson, he has made minimal to no impact on the first team squad.
For those travelling in big numbers today, over a five hundred mile round trip from Swansea to Blackburn we wish you a safe journey. We are aware there are groups travelling from Birmingham, London, the north west of England and the north east. The club can really take off this season, it’s there in front of us after the seasons fixtures so far. All fixtures being decided by the odd goal, and of course those draws that should have been wins.
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