Watford vs Swansea City Preview

January 18, 2016
By: Deke Hardman

Ki Swansea

Monday night’s Premier League action comes from the Liberty Stadium where Swansea City take on Watford.

The South Wales side have lost their last three games in all competitions and slipped into the relegation zone on Saturday following Newcastle United’s win over West Ham United.

They will climb out of the bottom three with victory here, and will be keen to do so ahead of back-to-back away fixtures against Everton and West Bromwich Albion.

Kyle Naughton is available after the defender saw the red card he picked up in Wednesday’s defeat to Sunderland rescinded on appeal so manager Alan Curtis has a full squad of players to select from.

Bafetimbi Gomis is priced at 6.5 (11/2) to get the first goal of the game with Bet 365, with Andre Ayew a 7.5 (13/2) chance with the same firm.

The home win is widely available at 2.45 (29/20) with the visitors as highly priced as the 3.3 (23/10) on offer from a variety of firms. The draw is 3.3 (23/10) with Betfred.

Quique Flores’ side have tailed off in recent weeks, taking just one point from the last twelve available in the league, form that has seen them slip to twelfth place.

A return to winning ways here will see them climb to eighth place and put them just a point behind Stoke City.

Nathan Ake is expected to return at left back after missing the last three games through suspension though fellow defenders Tommie Hoban and Joel Ekstrand are both out injured with groin and knee problems respectively.

Top scorer Odion Ighalo is 6.5 (11/2) to open the scoring with Paddy Power, ahead of Troy Deeney who is an 8.0 (7/1) chance with the same firm.

The Hornets ran out 1-0 winners when the sides met at Vicarage Road back in September, with Ighalo grabbing the only goal of the game.

With the visitors also having not scored more than one goal in each of their last four games you may be tempted to bet on that being the case here, at a price of 1.33 (3/10) with Coral.

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