Barclays Premier League

  • Venue: Liberty Stadium
  • Date: Sunday, 19 January

Lineup, Bookings (0) & Substitutions (0)

Swansea City

  • 25 Tremmel
  • 22 Rangel
  • 33 Davies
  • 07 Britton
  • 04 Chico
  • 06 Williams
  • 24 Pozuelo
  • 02 Amat
  • 10 Bony
  • 08 Shelvey
  • 15 Routledge

Substitutes

  • 03 Taylor
  • 13 Cornell
  • 14 Lamah
  • 19 Tiendalli
  • 26 Alvaro
  • 29 Richards
  • 41 Donnelly

Tottenham Hotspur

  • 25 Lloris
  • 02 Walker
  • 03 Rose
  • 19 Dembélé
  • 20 Dawson
  • 06 Chiriches
  • 07 Lennon
  • 42 Bentaleb
  • 10 Adebayor
  • 23 Eriksen
  • 21 Chadli

Substitutes

  • 09 Soldado
  • 14 Holtby
  • 15 Capoue
  • 16 Naughton
  • 18 Defoe
  • 22 Sigurdsson
  • 24 Friedel
Ref: Martin Atkinson

Match Stats

Shots

2 0

On target

0 0

Corners

1 0

Fouls

2 1

Live Text Commentary

5:50

Attempt missed. Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.

5:16

Foul by Nacer Chadli (Tottenham Hotspur).

5:04

Angel Rangel (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

4:26

Attempt missed. Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Wayne Routledge following a corner.

4:00

Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Vlad Chiriches.

1:39

Foul by Jordi Amat (Swansea City).

1:39

Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

1:08

Foul by Angel Rangel (Swansea City).

1:08

Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

0:00

First Half begins.

0:00

Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

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TEAM NEWS

Swansea goalkeeper Michel Vorm, striker Roland Lamah and defender Dwight Tiendalli may return after respective knee, abductor and hamstring injuries.

Wingers Pablo Hernandez and Nathan Dyer could also be available after injury, but Jonathan de Guzman remains out with an ankle problem.

Spurs winger Andros Townsend scored for the under-21 side in midweek on his return from a hamstring injury.

Midfielder Sandro is also expected to return after a month out.

MATCH PREVIEW

Swansea City's name barely gets a mention when the pundits offer up their considered thoughts on which three clubs will be relegated from the Premier League this season. Maybe they're fooled by the Swans position in the table.

They are 13th heading into the weekend. It sounds safe, but a three-point advantage over the drop zone is the far less convincing reality.

Add a winless run of seven games, including four defeats in five, and it becomes easy to appreciate why many fans are becoming concerned.

Injuries haven't helped their cause and maybe the extra workload brought by progressing to the last 32 of the Europa League has had a negative impact too.

They've already played 10 matches in the competition and wouldn't be the first club to struggle to cope with the Thursday-Sunday schedule.

Napoli await in the next round and Swans boss Michael Laudrup will want more than a few Premier League points added before the Italian giants roll up at the Liberty in a month's time.

Recent history suggests the Dane won't get many, if any, against Tottenham who have won the last four meetings between the clubs. Gareth Bale was amongst the scorers on their last visit to Wales in March, while a Roberto Soldado penalty secured victory at White Hart Lane earlier this season.

Like Swansea, Spurs are also through to the knockout stages of the Europa League but their squad boasts the depth and experience to handle a hectic fixture list.

Since Tim Sherwood became head coach their league form has improved dramatically too, picking up 13 points out of a possible 15 to rejuvenate hopes of a top-four finish.

Suddenly Spurs are scoring again. The return from the cold of Emmanuel Adebayor and of Christian Eriksen after injury has helped enormously.

Swansea have never beaten Tottenham in the Premier League and I don't expect that to change just yet with Welsh worries intensifying and Spurs still soaring come Sunday teatime.

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

  • Spurs are unbeaten against Swansea in six league encounters, five of which came in the last three seasons. (W5, D1)
  • Swansea City's last league win against Tottenham Hotspur came in October 1982, when Max Thompson and Bob Latchford scored - one of only 10 wins for the relegated Swans that season.
  • Jimmy Gilligan scored a League Cup second round first-leg winner for Swansea in September 1991, but Spurs rallied to win 5-1 in the return leg at White Hart Lane.

Swansea City

  • Swansea are without a win in seven Premier League games (D3, L4). It is their worst run of the season.
  • Their previous longest sequence without a win was nine games in the Championship between November and December 2008.
  • The Swans have conceded the first goal in 13 of 21 league games.
  • City have lost four more matches (10) than they had at this stage last season.

Tottenham Hotspur

  • Spurs are unbeaten in five league games, winning four and drawing one.
  • Tottenham have won their last four away league matches.
  • The nine clean sheets kept by Tottenham keeper Hugo Lloris is the joint-highest tally in the Premier League this season.
  • Michael Dawson is Tottenham's only ever-present in the Premier League this season.
  • Four of Roberto Soldado's five league goals have come from the penalty spot.