Cherries travel to Swansea, can they pick up a point or three?

Written by billythekid

After a top two-game at Dean Court that didn’t live up to expectations, but saw the top two strikers in the Championship add to their tally in a 1-1 draw. The Cherries are on the road again, this time to Wales to play Swansea City on Tuesday at 7.45 pm. The original game was postponed in February due to damage from storm Eunice to the Swansea Liberty Stadium. This is our first of two away games with four games to play and the Cherries need to come back from Wales with at least a point with two other sides breathing down their neck. One of those other sides are also playing on Tuesday night when Nottingham Forest visit Craven Cottage to play Fulham. The home side could win the title with a draw, depending on AFCB’s result at Swansea. But 3 points in front of their home fans will guarantee Fulham the title. Fulham are live on Sky and our game on Solent.

Swansea City had finished in a play-off place for the last two seasons under their previous manager Steve Cooper and last season reached the final, only to lose out on that third spot into the Premier League to Brentford. Under new manager Russell Martin, at the end of December with 22 games played, the Swans were 16th In the table with 27 points, 8 pts from a play-off place.

Since our home game against the Swans back in November, at home, they have beaten Preston and Blackburn Rovers 1-0, Bristol City and Coventry City 3-1 and Derby County 2-1. Drawn 1-1 against Blackpool, 0-0 with Birmingham City and 1-1 against Barnsley. They lost 2-3 against Reading, 1-4 against Nottingham Forest and 0-1 with Luton Town and 1-5 against Fulham. Away they have W 5, D 3, L 5. Their most recent game was at home against Middlesbrough, it finished 1-1. They are in 14th position after 43 games with 60 points and 9 points off a play-off spot.

Our last visit to Wales to play Swansea City was in December 2020, the game finished in a 0-0 draw.

In all our league away games against the Swans, AFCB have W 6, D 8, L14.
In all competitions, AFCB have W 25, D 13, L 23.

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Swansea City Team News
In the January transfer window, they signed goalkeeper Andrew Fisher and defender Nathanael Ogbeta from Shrewsbury Town. On loan, they signed three players, defenders Cyrus Christie from Fulham, Finley Burns from Manchester City and midfielder Hannes Wolf from RB Leipzig.
There are no reports of injury news in the Swans camp.

Swansea City Player To Watch
Joel Piroe their 22-year-old Dutch striker signed for £1 million at the beginning of the season, is their leading scorer with 20 goals and has 6 assists. Jamie Patterson has 9 goals and is leading with 9 assists. Michael Obafemi the lad they signed from Saints has scored 11 goals and 6 goals in his last 8 games, including 2 in his last two games, 5 scored away from home

AFCB Team News
Philip Billing substituted at half-time with a back injury against Fulham is a doubt for Tuesday night. The game is probably too early for a return for Jordan Zemura or Kieffer Moore.

AFCB Player To Watch
Against Fulham on Saturday, Lewis Cook after a very early booking didn’t seem bothered with that hanging over his head and got on and played his natural game and was our best midfield player, we need that form until the end of the season. In defence, Adam Smith seems to be a ‘lucky omen’ for us having played 16 league games and AFCB won 9, drawn 5 and lost 2 this season and Smith only being on the losing side twice. On one of those occasions when he was subbed, the teams were drawing. Dominic Solanke will be looking to add to his tally being 3 goals off 30 goals for the season, best since Ted MacDougall with 42 goals, but two leagues lower.

The Referee
Darren Bond is in charge of this game.
The last time we had him was last season in the home game against Reading and two away games against Queens Park Rangers and Blackburn Rovers.

Your say…

Leeds Cherry wrote…

I think we need to match Forest’s result as a minimum. If we don’t, then we will need something from our match against them.
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