Preview | Swansea City v Preston North End

Swansea City will look to continue their outstanding run of home form when they welcome Preston North End to the Swansea.com Stadium tonight (7.45pm).

The Swans have the best home record in the Championship during Vitor Matos' tenure, and have taken 22 points from the last 24 on offer in SA1 with the most recent three points coming against Bristol City on Saturday.

They will face a Preston side smarting on the back of a late defeat to Lancashire rivals Blackburn last time out, but who are within three points of the play-off places, on a night when Snoop Dogg makes his first visit to a Swans game.

Team news

Marko Stamenic will serve his second and last match ban after picking up 10 yellow cards this campaign.

Adam Idah and Zeidane Inoussa are still in recovery after long-term injuries, and Vitor Matos has reported no fresh injury concerns ahead of this evening.

Pre-match views

Vitor Matos: "We play again at home, which is brilliant and that doesn't happen a lot for us that we play back to back games at home. So we have that now, we can recover, rest and get ready.

"We focus on Preston because that will be a massive game for us as well, it's another night where the connection between the stadium and the team can be key.

"The fans made every tackle and kicked every ball with us during the final 15 minutes against Bristol City. It gives us so much energy and we want more of the same of that."

Ben Whiteman (Preston captain): “They are a really intense side.

“A new manager has come in with a different philosophy; he wants to be on the front foot. We've got to match that and match the intensity, which we will do, trying to get the three points.”

Meet the officials

David Webb will be the man in the middle for this evening's fixture.

This will be the 24th time he has taken charge of a Swans game in the Championship.

So far this season Webb has overseen 23 matches, handing out a total of 56 yellow cards and one red.

On Saturday, he will be assisted by Daniel Leach and Alan Cresswell. Stephen Martin will be the fourth official.

Remember the last time?

Swansea City 3 Preston North End 0

Swansea City opened their Championship account for the season as goals from Matt Grimes, Azeem Abdulai and Žan Vipotnik secured a deserved three points against Preston North End.

Skipper Grimes broke the deadlock from the penalty spot shortly before the interval, and Abdulai doubled the advantage when Ollie Cooper’s shot struck the midfielder to wrongfoot Freddie Woodman in the Preston goal.

Vipotnik then rounded things off as he finished from close range for his first Swansea goal, after Ronald had burst into the box to pick out a cross.

Prime numbers

1 - Swansea have lost just one of their last 23 home league games against Preston (W17 D5), winning 10 of the last 11 (L1).

5 - Swansea have won five of their last eight midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) league games (L3), including each of the last three in a row.