📏 Form Guide

Swansea City

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Swansea City enter this fixture coming off the back of a 3-3 Championship stalemate versus Sheffield United.

In that game, Swansea City had 52% possession and 8 shots at goal with 6 on target. For Swansea City, the goalscorers were Žan Vipotnik (24'), Adam Idah (75') and Ji-sung Eom (82'). Sheffield United had 13 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Gustavo Hamer (16'), Harrison Burrows (53') and Tom Cannon (64') scored for Sheffield United.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times where Swansea City have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Swansea City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 12 goals along the way. That pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this match, however.

Middlesbrough

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After tasting defeat last time out to Millwall in Championship competition, Middlesbrough will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Middlesbrough had 61% possession and 32 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Middlesbrough was Dael Fry (26'). Millwall got 11 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Josh Coburn (58', 86') scored for Millwall.

Kim Hellberg's Middlesbrough have turned their attacks into goals a total of 9 times in the course of their previous 6 matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during the equivalent period equals 5.

Ahead of this clash, Middlesbrough are undefeated in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head meetings going back to 11/03/2023 shows us that Swansea City have won 1 of these and Middlesbrough 5, with the tally of draws being 0.

An aggregate of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 3 of them from The Swans and 9 coming from The Boro. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was Championship match day 1 on 09/08/2025 when it ended Middlesbrough 1-0 Swansea City.

In that game, Middlesbrough managed 54% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Dael Fry (51').

Swansea City had 3 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Farai Hallam.

ℹ️ Team News: Swansea City

We are thinking that The Swans should go for a 4-2-3-1 formation in the match featuring Lawrence Vigouroux, Joel Ward, Ben Cabango, Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon, Gonçalo Franco, Marko Stamenic, Melker Widell, Malick Yalcouye, Ronald and Zan Vipotnik.

🗞️ Team News: Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough manager Kim Hellberg has multiple availability issues to deal with. Alfie Jones (Ankle injury) and Darragh Lenihan (Ankle surgery) are not able to play.

There’s a good chance that The Boro appear most likely to utilise a 3-4-2-1 formation, starting the game with Solomon Brynn, Luke Ayling, Adilson Malanda, Dael Fry, Callum Brittain, Aidan Morris, Alan Browne, Alex Bangura, Riley McGree, Tommy Conway and David Strelec.

✨ Prediction

In our opinion, Swansea City will have to perform well to score against this Middlesbrough lineup who will likely be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

That’s why our selection here is for a very competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for Middlesbrough when the full-time whistle blows.

A close call.

Andre Moura, 03:02 06/04/2026