Swansea v Blackburn

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Swansea v Blackburn Sat 02 March 15:00
Our fans expectations will be high for this weekend’s home clash with Blackburn after that impressive showing in the win at Sunderland last time out.
Our home form has been very poor this season with just 4 wins from 17 games and the reason why we are struggling at the wrong end of the table. In order to rectify this we have to stop conceding those soft goals.
Blackburn are in a similar position to us in the table and last won an away match 8 games ago, but we have a habit of gifting wins to teams with poor away records, for example losing at home to Plymouth recently, it was their first away win of the season.
Blackburn with a new manager at the helm, John Eustace, in his 5 matches in charge they have so far produced 1 win and 3 draws.
On Wednesday night they took PL Newcastle to extra time and penalties in a hard fought encounter at Ewood Park in the FA Cup Quarter Finals, and have certainly improved under Eustace.
We expect a hard game but hope the Blackburn players are thoroughly worn out after their Cup adventures.
They have the Championship’s leading scorer in Sammie Szmodics on 18 goals (24 in all competitions) and he will take some marking if we are to get the much needed win.
The reverse fixture last October was a 0-1 win for the Swans, Cullen the scorer, after two goals were disallowed from Lowe and Rushworth made two fine saves from Szmodics.