This Week's Opposition: Swansea City

Jake Smith delves into Swansea City, Portsmouth's next opponent in the Championship.

The first of 2 home games this week awaits for Pompey on Tuesday night and it’s early promotion hopefuls Swansea City the opponents for it.

MANAGER

The Swans are led by Portuguese head coach Vítor Matos, who took to the helm last November after the Welsh club triggered his release clause at C.S. Marítimo, the only other club he’s managed so far.

Since arriving, the 38-year-old has achieved a win rate of 48.9% from 45 competitive games in charge.

ONE TO WATCH

21-year-old Joseph Opoku is a player we think you should be wary of this midweek.

The Ghanaian, who wears the number 30 shirt, plays out wide, typically on the right, and signed a 4-year contract with an option for a further 12 months in the summer, arriving from Belgian top flight outfit SV Zulte Waregem.

He scored his first goal for The Swans on his Championship debut, an opening day victory over Stoke.

TOP SCORER

With 4 league strikes to his name at this stage, striker Adam Idah is the club’s leading scorer.

The 25-year-old has, however, blanked in his last 3 games.

Idan began his career at Norwich City and represented the Republic of Ireland on the international stage - he joined Swansea from Scottish giants Celtic last September for a fee reported to be in the region of £6million.

For the South Wales outfit, the forward wears number 33.

CURRENT FORM

The Swans have had an excellent start to the campaign and currently sit 2nd in the Championship on 26 points - 2 behind leaders Middlesbrough.

They had led the division themselves until recently, suffering a heavy 5-0 defeat to QPR in their last away match on October 24th.

Despite that setback, which itself followed on from another loss at home to West Ham, Vítor Matos’ side bounced back with a 4-0 home win over Blackburn at the weekend.

Can the Blues keep up this run of form against a side aiming for promotion?

You can listen to the game on Express FM on Tuesday (November 3rd) evening from 7pm - Jake Smith, Graham Butterworth and Danny Thompson will be at Fratton Park to deliver full coverage.

Kick-off: 7:45pm!