Match day build up & team news on Swansea Independent
Swansea City are in the north east of England to play Sunderland today at the Stadium Of Light. We will have team news later and have links this morning to our pre match build up. Keep checking back for the latest.
⚽️ TEAMS : Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux; Josh Key, Ben Cabango (captain), Harry Darling, Josh Tymon; Jay Fulton, Goncalo Franco, Lewis O’Brien; Ronald, Jisung Eom, Liam Cullen.
Substitutes: Jon McLaughlin, Joe Allen, Žan Vipotnik, Florian Bianchini, Cyrus Christie, Kyle Naughton, Ollie Cooper, Ben Lloyd, Sam Parker.
Sunderland: Anthony Patterson, Dan Neil (captain), Alan Browne, Patrick Roberts, Chris Rigg, Wilson Isidor, Luke O'Nien, Chris Mepham, Trai Hume, Tommy Watson, Harrison Jones.
Substitutes: Simon Moore, Elizier Mayenda, Salis Abdul Samed, Leo Hjelde, Enzo Le Fee, Joe Anderson, Milan Aleksic, Thomas Lavery, Oliver Rainbridge.
Alan Sheehan, Swans interim player coach has focus on as many points as possible over the next five games. "You can never be complacent, and that is not a word I would associate with this group of players. Now we have to dust ourselves down after what was a really positive night for the club, and one where I felt a lot of pride at how the team played. Now it’s about getting to the next level. We have got past the 50-point mark, I think we moved up another place. But that challenge is always there, to finish as high as you can and to get the best points tally you can.
UPDATE ⚽️ Changes today, minimum of one.
⚽️ Pre match build up.
Click here —-> The full brief
⚽️ We also carried a full feature into the many changes that are set to me made at the club introduced by CEO, Tom Gorringe.
Click here —-> Good or bad ?
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