That’s how it goes at times, so Pompey will be eager to go tomorrow afternoon. Kusini Yengi, who has played eight Championship games for Portsmouth this season, is expected to miss the remainder of the season. The 25-year-old sustained a knee injury after returning from international duty with Australia. Callum Lang is the club’s leading goalscorer with four. Former Spurs player Connor Ogilvie, a defenderMark O’Mahony and Josh Murphy have both scored two goals. Pompey are currently in a hazardous position, with a minus twelve goal difference and sitting at the bottom of the table. The two cancelled games haven’t helped, but they are beginning to feel isolated at the bottom of the table, with just Cardiff City close by. They’ve only won two games this season and scored sixteen goals, so they’ll be anxious to win this game.
Mousinho is hopeful that Zak Swanson will return for this one. ‘It’s a heel injury, which can be really painful for anyone who has experienced it. (Plantar Fasciitis) When you play football, you put a lot of weight on your feet, and it’s not something you can hide like a shoulder injury or whatever. We simply need to make things right and get Zak back.
After losing three games in a row to impactful goals in injury time, the Swans rebounded in midweek with a 2-1 victory over Derby County. (below) After securing victory after fifteen minutes, the Swans spent the remainder of the game attempting to undo all of their hard work. Any coach viewing that game will know exactly what to do when their side faces Swansea City. The Swans have struggled to score goals this season, and the midfield isn’t helping matters. Zán Vipotnik now has three goals with LiamCullen has four, while Florian Bianchini, despite making most of his appearances off the bench, has two. The two contract difficulties at the defense, Ben Cabango and Harry Darling, each have a goal, but things are difficult in front of goal. This week, the Swans scored five goals but conceded five. The Swans are yet to lose a game this season by more than one goal. With a little more composure and awareness on the game, we could see the Swans in the top six tomorrow. That is the thin margins that head coach Luke Williams is working against in what is a rather rigid style of play.
The Swans are no longer the league’s lowest goal scorers; that honor now goes to Cardiff City and Queens Park Rangers, who both have fifteen goals. Both teams have conceded 26 goals this season, with the Swans conceding less than a goal per game (15). That gives them a plus one goal difference. Following tomorrow’s game, the Swans will have a week off before playing three of their next four games away. The first game will be away to Luton Town, followed by a midweek match away to Plymouth. That’s three away games against Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, and now Plymouth Argyle played away from home in midweek And now the Norwich City away game in January has been rescheduled for 12.30pm. Amongst all of this, the Swans have a home game against Sunderland on December 14th. To add salt to the wound, the final game before Christmas is an away trip to Hull City, which starts at 12.30pm. Some will think the Swans need to play The same sides as everyone else, which is right, but not at the distances that the Jack Army must go. Some of this season’s visits, particularly those in the middle of the week, have signaled to many that the football calendar has not been carefully planned. Who in their right mind would schedule Swansea away to Sheffield two weeks apart in midweek for both games? Wednesday’s turnout at Pride Park was outstanding considering (see below).
Back to the game, the Swans will get an update on Harry Darling later today; he left the ground after a knock and is already dealing with some pre-match illness, so fingers crossed he is on the mend. We’ll have a lot more information on this game as it approaches kickoff tomorrow.
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