Wrexham

vs

Swansea City

Preview

Wrexham (Home)

• Wrexham have won three of their last five games, drawing one and losing one.
• Phil Parkinson has turned Wrexham into a pragmatic, no-frills team that are all about results, structure and direct soccer.
• His team have won their last three games, beating Ipswich Town 5-3 in a home thriller and winning 1-0 away at Charlton Athletic in their two previous games.
• They sit 6th in the Championship with 57 points from 35 matches, firmly in the playoff race.

Swansea City (Away)

• Swansea’s Vitor Matos is an excellent coach who has brought structure, patience, some tactical fluidity and possession-based soccer to the Swans.
• A 1-1 home draw with Preston, 3-0 away defeat to Ipswich and 2-0 home win over Stoke City have been their results in their last three matches.

Key Players

• Parkinson’s side are physical, direct, with excellent wing-backs who can overrun opponents and a focus on vertical transitions and set-piece play.
• Kieffer Moore has scored 11 Championship goals in 32 appearances to lead the team’s scoring charts and is a good focal point for this style of play.
• Zan Vipotnik leads their scoring charts with 17 in 34 games and his recent finishing touch has been especially important with half of the Swans’ last five goals scored by him.

Betting Insights

• Swansea’s away record is awful with four wins, two draws and 11 defeats, averaging 0.82 goals scored per game and 1.41 goals conceded in the Championship.
• Wrexham have taken two wins from their last three home games and look a team on the rise.
• The odds for a Wrexham home win look favorable at 2.14.
• Suggested markets: Both teams to score at 1.74 and Over 2.5 goals at 1.94.

Prediction

• I think this will be a high-scoring Welsh rivalry game with both teams getting on the board.
• Wrexham are a team on the up and will have the momentum to take the victory.