Preview | Preston North End v Swansea City
Swansea City make the long trip north this evening as they look to return to winning ways when they face Preston North End at Deepdale under the lights (7.45pm).
Alan Sheehan's side are unbeaten in their last three outings away from home, with victory over Blackburn Rovers and draws against Southampton and Charlton Athletic respectively.
Preston have lost just two of their last nine games in the Championship, and sit in the play-off places having beaten Sheffield United and Southampton in their last two games.
Team news
Malick Yalcouye will be available for selection following his three-match suspension. Swans top-scorer Zan Vipotnik will be assessed ahead of the trip to Deepdale after the striker picked up a quad injury in training.
Marko Stamenic is on compassionate leave following a family bereavement.
Pre-match views
Ethan Galbraith: "We have to be ready to go again. In this league, there are no easy games, no one feels sorry for you. So we have to prepare and go out and perform, it’s as simple as that.
“We just need to keep working, and we know we need to kill games off when we have the chances and are in the ascendancy.
“We have been having good spells in games, but it’s that final bit we need to get better at.
“We are confident in our abilities, we want to kick on. Everyone wants to win and we want to try and get as far up the table as we can.”
Stuart McCall: “They get about the game and they'll make it tough for us. Every team you come up against presents their own challenges and no doubt they’ll be no different.
“If you look back at our game we had against them last season when Alan Sheehan had just gone in as manager, it was a 0-0, but we played well that night. We just missed too many opportunities so we'll take the same performance but hopefully we can put away some of the opportunities we create.”
Tonight's officials
Anthony Backhouse is the man in the middle for for this evening's clash at Deepdale.
Backhouse has been an EFL referee since 2017 and became the first Cumbrian official for more than 40 years to be added to the EFL Referee list.
His career highlights to date include refereeing the National League Play-Off Final in 2017, being Fourth Official in the 2022 FA Trophy Final and referee in the FA Vase Final in 2023.
He last took charge of a Swans game in the 2-0 win at Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough in August.
He will be assisted by Andrew Fox and Shaun Hudson on Wednesday. Josh Smith will be the fourth official.
Remember the last time?
Swansea City picked up a point on their travels with a hard-fought draw against Preston North End at Deepdale.
In a game of few clear chances, Liam Cullen, Lewis O’Brien and Jisung Eom went closest for the visitors.
At the other end, Lawrence Vigouroux made saves to deny Brad Potts, Milutin Osmajic and Sam Greenwood as the Swans made it back-to-back clean sheets and three in their last four games.
Prime numbers
3 - Swansea City are unbeaten in their last three league meetings with Preston North End (W2 D1), keeping a clean sheet in the last two – they last went three in a row against PNE without conceding in 1930.
5 - Preston North End have lost only five of their 30 home league games since the start of last season, but have drawn more home Championship matches than any other side in that period (W11 D14).