Swansea v Blackburn

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Swansea v Blackburn Tue 20 Jan 19:45
The last of the three home matches this month, including the Cup game, a defeat and a draw so far, and not much luck. Hopefully we can put away our chances and get the three points tonight.

Although Blackburn are 5 points below us in the table they seem to be a hard nut to crack with 6 draws in their last 10 matches. Last Saturday they lost 3-0 at Ipswich though, who are in top form at the moment.

Swans meanwhile are much improved but have trouble scoring and holding on to a lead if they do score, especially late on in matches when they run out of steam with their high intensity play and bringing on inferior subs.

We all thought at the beginning of the season that we had a strong squad but it has turned out not to be the case, with some of the new players disappointing so far. Quality back-up loanee centre-back Casey returning to West Ham due to lack of game time has not helped either. He was not happy at being subbed in the West Brom Cup game and has gone home to London to go out on loan to local club League One Leyton Orient, where he came on as sub last Saturday.

With the hamstring injury to Idah we are short of back-up for Vipotnik, playing Cullen out of position up front does not work, although he was unlucky with his header which hit the post in the Birmingham draw.
Only five points separate us from the drop again so we need to start picking up some wins from somewhere.