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Swansea City will have a chance to chalk up consecutive wins for the first time this season when a weary Southampton visit the Liberty on Tuesday evening.
The Saints are coming off a brutal stretch of three games in eight days, with two midweek cup fixtures sandwiched between last Saturday’s 3-0 league victory over Leicester, and Tuesday night’s match with Swansea. With home advantage and a tired opponent, the Swans should be looking for maximum points.
Swansea’s transformation under Paul Clement has been so complete that all bets are off in terms of relegation. This is no longer the same side that had been floundering in the drop zone for most of the season so far. The signs of life so encouragingly shown in the first half of a 4-0 defeat to Arsenal flowered a week later with Swansea’s first ever win at Anfield, 3-2. Confidence has returned, along with previously forgotten concepts such as team shape, effort, discipline, concentration and purpose.
A glance at the bottom six casts resurgent Swansea into a crowd of underwhelming strugglers. Both Sunderland and Hull City’s transfer business this window strongly suggests neither club expects to beat relegation, or is even willing to try anymore. Injury-stricken Sunderland look ready to part with Patrick van Aanholt while Hull have already sold the excellent Robert Snodgrass to West Ham. Crystal Palace’s gambit to replace Alan Pardew with firefighter Sam Allardyce appears to have backfired, at least in the short-term, with the club having taken just a solitary point from the five games since Big Sam’s arrival.
Middlesbrough have the league’s weakest attack and will find it hard to avoid being sucked further into the relegation battle if they can’t find a way to score more goals. Leicester have gone from being last season’s Cinderella to being this season’s Leicester, and need something to change if they are to arrest their slump. Of all six sides, Swansea appear the most composed, the most together, the best positioned to engineer an escape.
It should be clear by now that most of the club’s problems this season have been the result of off-field distractions. The summer takeover by US investors unsettled the side, and the board exacerbated matters by making two questionable decisions in hiring managers. The squad was never that weak, and is comfortably better than that of at least four of their so-called relegation rivals.
The threat of dropping a division has finally seemed to spur the club into a wave of affirmative action, which has seen the first inspired managerial appointment since Michael Laudrup, the addition of Chelsea legend Claude Makelele to the coaching staff, and decisive moves in the transfer market which have so far gone some way to restoring Swansea’s once impressive reputation for making shrewd moves.
Newcomers Martin Olsson and Tom Carroll both played a part in the goals in that win over Liverpool, while wide man Luciano Narsingh should make his first start Tuesday night against Southampton. And if Clement’s side could contain the league’s best attack for most of a whole match, they should be able to deal with a Saints side that will likely be without two of its starting strikers. Both Charlie Austin and Jay Rodriguez are sidelined, leaving the likes of Shane Long and ersatz striker Nathan Redmond to lead the line.
Ironically Long is probably the biggest threat to Swansea of all those players. The Swans have always fared poorly against tireless, physical players like Long, and it will be interesting to see how well Clement’s new well-drilled defence copes with a little kryptonite. Beyond that however, Swansea have all the advantage.
The Saints will be tired. Claude Puel might have fielded a B-team for Saturday’s morale destroying 5-0 defeat to Arsenal, but even with rotation, all his first teamers have played two matches worth of football this past week. Swansea will still be on a high following the Liverpool result, and will have both home advantage and an unknown entity in Narsingh to draw upon for inspiration.
Should Swansea win, they might push themselves as much as five points clear of the relegation places and possibly as far up as 15th in the table, depending on other results. The game will be played against the backdrop of transfer deadline day, with the window closing shortly after the game’s conclusion. If Clement can engineer another win while the Swans round out their transfer business intelligently, they can approach the remainder of this campaign as if it were the beginning of a new season – one in which Swansea don’t get anywhere near relegation.
Max is ESPN FC’s Swansea blogger. Follow him on Twitter: @maxwellhicks
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Ahead of Tuesday night’s Premier League meeting between Swansea and Saints, we bring you some key stats and facts.
Each of the last three Premier League meetings between these two sides at the Liberty Stadium have ended 1-0 to Southampton.
Southampton have only conceded three goals in their previous nine Premier League meetings with Swansea City.
Swansea City have conceded more goals in their last 10 Premier League matches (29) than Southampton have in their last 24 games in the competition (28).
The Swans will be looking for successive Premier League victories for the first time since May 2016, following their 3-2 win at Liverpool last weekend.
Paul Clement has won two of his three Premier League games in charge of Swansea City, equalling Bob Bradley’s win tally during his 11-game spell at the club in the competition.
Swansea have lost their last three Premier League home games. They haven’t lost four at home in succession within the top-flight before, while the last time they lost four home league games in a row was back in March 1991 in the third tier.
Fernando Llorente scored two goals in Swansea’s last league game – a 3-2 win at Liverpool. He’s not scored in consecutive league appearances since November 2015 whilst with Sevilla in La Liga.
Southampton have seen 99 different players score a Premier League goal for them so far (excl. own goals) and are looking to become the 12th different team to have reach the century of goalscorers in the competition.
Southampton have lost four Premier League games in which they have scored the first goal this season – more than any other side.
Only Chelsea (56) have allowed their opponents fewer shots on target in the Premier League this season than Southampton (64 – level with Spurs).
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Liverpool’s Adam Lallana has been named 2016 England Player of the Year following a vote among members of the England Supporters club.
The Reds midfielder attracted 39 per cent of votes ahead of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy (12 per cent) and Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney (eight per cent).
Nathan Redmond picked up the England U21 Player of the Year award. The Southampton winger (32 per cent) saw off competition from club team-mate James Ward-Prowse (25 per cent) and Chelsea’s Ruben Loftus-Cheek (12 per cent).
Lallana was a regular for England across 2016 with the 28-year-old scoring his first international goal in September’s last-gasp win over Slovakia, before going on to net in November’s games against Scotland and Spain at Wembley.
Lallana told TheFA.com: "This award is a huge honour. The last three winners were Rooney (2015), Rooney (2014) and Steven Gerrard (2012) so that just goes to show what a great achievement this is.
"Things have been going well this season for my club so that always helps. When you’re playing well for your club then hopefully you can transmit your form into the national team and help out.
"That’s what has been happening but I don’t want that to be for just one season - I want to continue that for as long as possible.
“Off the back of a disappointing year for England as a whole, I’ll be looking to definitely improve in 2017 and hopefully we can build on how it has started under Gareth Southgate, as there have been plenty of positives.”
England resume their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign on Sunday March 26 when they face Lithuania at Wembley.
Redmond, 22, was a crucial part of the squad that won 2016’s Toulon Tournament and also helped the team to reach the 2017 European U21 Championship finals with an unbeaten qualifying record.
“I’m delighted,” said Redmond. "I was up against some other worthy winners, so I don’t think words can describe how good of an achievement it is.
“I’m so thankful to the people that voted for me, and also to the other boys in that Under-21 squad for the past couple of campaigns. I wouldn’t have been able to achieve the levels I’ve been playing at if it wasn’t for the standard of players there.”
Next up for Redmond and his U21 team-mates are trips to Germany and Norway in March, as preparations for this summer’s Euro finals continue.
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