Swansea v Preston, Friday 22 Dec 19:45
Preston are our next opponents in what is our final home fixture of 2023. Inexplicably the fixture has been moved from Saturday afternoon to a Friday night kick-off on police advice. An evening of office parties and get togethers as workers break up for Christmas it could be our lowest gate of the season.
Preston are just above us in the form table with 3 wins in the last 10 matches. They are an unpredictable team and in the last two games, having won 1-3 away at Huddersfield they go and get hammered 1-5 at home to Watford last Saturday.
We lost the reverse fixture 2-1 after taking the lead through Ashby first-half. As has been the pattern of play this season we conceded an equaliser second-half and the winner close to the end of the match.
Having had enough of Yorkshire teams, with three of our last four matches playing the white roses, we now turn to the red rose of Lancashire to see if we get any better luck.