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Swans v Watford

keith margam

Vital Football Legend
In a tough week of fixtures next up is Watford on Sat 2 Jan 15:00.
Watford were recently relegated from the PL after five years.
The Pozzo family own the club, headed by Gino Pozzo.
His father Giampaolo Pozzo also owns Italian Serie A club Udinese Calcio.
They’ve had a big turnover in managers, eight in the last two years.
Vladimir Ivic was appointed in August this year, replacing Nigel Pearson, and Ivic was duly fired last week with Watford sitting 5th in the table.
Xisco Munoz was appointed on 21 Dec and his first match in charge was last Saturday when they beat leaders Norwich 1-0.
Their midweek fixture this week at Millwall was postponed so they’ll have a full week of rest time, whereas we have less than 72 hours between matches.
Watford’s last 6 away matches:
W1 D3 L2 F2 A4
19/12 Huddersfield 2 - Watford 0
12/12 Birmingham 0 - Watford 1
2/12 Forest 0 - Watford 0
25/11 Bristol City 0 - Watford 0
21/11 QPR 1 - Watford 1
31/10 Barnsley 1 - Watford 0
 
Tough game today, strong squad and new manager effect. Beat Norwich recently too and kept a clean sheet against a good attacking side. Expect we'll go with same midfield today. Test today for Latibeadierre too, coming in against tough opposition once again. Bournemouth the last one.
 
The teams:
Manning replaces the injured Bennett, Latibeaudiere injured in warm-up, and a real surprise, great news, long time injured Gibbs-White is on the bench!

Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Ryan Manning, Ben Cabango, Marc Guehi; Connor Roberts, Korey Smith, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Jake Bidwell; Jamal Lowe, Andre Ayew.

Substitutes: Steven Benda, Morgan Gibbs-White, Viktor Gyokeres, Wayne Routledge, Yan Dhanda, Cameron Evans, Jordon Garrick, Kasey Palmer, Oli Cooper.

Watford: Ben Foster, Jeremy Ngakia, Ben Wilmot, Tom Cleverley, Troy Deeney (captain), Ken Sema, Nathaniel Chalobah, Andre Gray, Kiko Femenia, Ismaila Sarr, Francisco Sierralta.

Substitutes: Daniel Bachmann, William Troost Ekong, Adam Masina, James Garner, Will Hughes, Marc Navarro, Sam Dalby, Joseph Hungbo, Kane Crichlow.
 
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It took them only 20 minutes to break us down. One shot on target, one goal, Watford take the lead, Tom Cleverly right footed shot from outside the box.
 
Swans 2 - Watford 1
Possession: 54% - 46%
Shots: 13 - 11
On target: 5 - 3
Pass accuracy: 81% - 79%
Corners: 6 - 8
Fouls: 12 - 13
Cards: 3Y - 2Y