Swansea v West Brom

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Swansea v West Brom Thursday 1 Jan 15:00
It’s the new year and we move on into the second-half of the season.
There is more optimism in the camp after we secured an away win and double over lowly Oxford on Monday night which gave us a seven point gap over the bottom three and eased the pressure a bit.
We were unlucky a few days earlier not to get any points from the Coventry game which would have further widened the gap.
We are seeing a visible improvement in performances under Vitor Matos’ leadership so can we now look forward to climbing the table and dismiss any threat of relegation? One would hope so.
We lost to our next opponents the Baggies end of November at the Hawthorns in Matos’ second game in charge. This after going 0-2 up and conceding three second-half goals in a surprising capitulation through individual mistakes.
We have tightened our defence since then by moving Galbraith to right-back from midfield and resting the off-form Josh Key. This has worked well but we are missing his creative skills centrally. Hopefully a right-back replacement is on the cards in the upcoming transfer window.
West Brom are not too clever away from home so let us see if we can make it our fourth home win on the trot.