Swansea City v CD Leganés : Match day build up
Saturday, 1st Aug 2026 12:18 by Swansea independent

Some would say today’s game at the .com should be a breeze against a Spanish side who haven’t HD much success over the past six years or so. The standard they play at isn’t comparible with anything other than League two in England.

Teams are in.

⚽️ Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Filip Lissah, Cameron Burgess (captain), Josh Tymon; Marko Stamenic, Melker Widell, Elijah Just; Joseph Opoku, Moussa Yeo; Adam Idah.

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Evan Watts, Paul Farman, Jay Fulton, Zan Vipotnik, Jisung Eom, Zeidane Inoussa, Ronald, Thomas Woodward, Arthur Parker, Carter Heywood.

⚽️ CD Leganes: Raul Fernandez, Marvelous Garzon, Ignasi Miquel, Gonzalo Lopez, Yassine Kechta, Alejandro Millan, Zico, Enric Franquesa, Ismael Gharbi, Miguel Angel Atienza, Alvaro Tejero.

Substitutes: Nico Lozano, Ruben Pulido, Ruben Pena, Naim, Andres Campos, Alfred Gothler, Djibril Gueye, Beltran, Suleiman El-Haddadi, Jorge Herrero.

There are clubs who earn promotion into La Liga who are several levels above such as Malalga but the divinos standard is poor. CDL became the fifth team from Community of Madrid ever to play in La Liga, after Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, Rayo Vallecano and Getafe. They remained in the top flight for four seasons, reaching a peak of 13th in 2018–19, before relegation in the last game of the following season, a 2–2 home draw with Real Madrid.

With the League Cup tie against Birmingham City a week away you would expect at some point to see what head coach Vitor Matos believes is his strongest side ? Next weeks opponents Birmingham City fought hard to earn a 2-2 draw with what was described as an experimental Barcelona side last night at St Andrews. The Blues won on penalties. Having said that the home side were extremely sharp in attack with plenty of pace.

That’s really the next step for the Swans today, reach to a higher standard and be more effective in front of goal. This side can collapse quickly when under pressure. They lost a real talent to RB Leipzieg last summer, one Yan Diomand (below) a top player who is rumoured to be in the midst of a transfer to Real Madrid. A nice sell on their for CDL. The talent is their in this squad but the standard the Swans play at is very much higher than their opponents today.

Last CDL result was a 4-1 defeat to Real Madrid on the 28th July, another very experimental side.