Swansea City v Manchester United: Team news, kick-off time, probable line-ups, odds and stats from the Premier League clash

  • Swansea City captain Leon Britton doubtful with back injury
  • Jay Fulton and summer signing Roque Mesa on standby to replace midfielder 
  • Luke Shaw and Ashley Young nearing Manchester United return
  • But Marcos Rojo still months away following knee ligament damage 

Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Swansea's home clash with Manchester United...

 

Swansea City v Manchester United (Liberty Stadium) 


Team news

Swansea

Swansea captain Leon Britton is doubtful for the visit of Premier League leaders Manchester United.

Britton has been struggling with a back injury, with Jay Fulton and summer signing Roque Mesa on standby to replace the veteran midfielder.

Swansea City captian Leon Britton is a major doubt to face Manchester United

Swansea City captian Leon Britton is a major doubt to face Manchester United

Fernando Llorente (arm), Nathan Dyer (achilles) and Ki Sung-yueng (knee) remain absent as Swansea play for the first time since Gylfi Sigurdsson's departure to Everton for a club-record fee.

Provisional squad: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Olsson, Britton, Carroll, Fer, Ayew, Routledge, Abraham, Nordfeldt, Mulder, Rangel, Kingsley, Van der Hoorn, Bartley, Mesa, Fulton, Grimes, Narsingh, McBurnie.

Manchester United

Manchester United head to Swansea for Saturday's Premier League clash without any new injury problems.

Long-term absentees Luke Shaw and Ashley Young are set to step up their rehabilitation by playing for United's Under 23s against their Swansea counterparts on Monday.

Luke Shaw is set to feature for Manchester United Under 23s against Swansea on Monday

Luke Shaw is set to feature for Manchester United Under 23s against Swansea on Monday

Argentina defender Marcos Rojo is still several months from returning from serious knee ligament damage.

Provisional squad: De Gea, Romero, J Pereira, Valencia, Darmian, Blind, Jones, Bailly, Smalling, Lindelof, Tuanzebe, Matic, Carrick, Fellaini, Herrera, McTominay, Pogba, Lingard, Mkhitaryan, Mata, A Pereira, Martial, Rashford, Lukaku.

 

SWANSEA v MANCHESTER UTD

Kick-off: Sat, 12.30pm - Sky Sports 1

Odds (subject to change):

Swansea 11/1

Draw 21/5

Manchester United 7/19

Managers:

Paul Clement (Swansea)

Jose Mourinho (Manchester United)

Head-to-head league record:

Swansea wins 9

Draws 6

Manchester United wins 13

Recent league form (latest result first):

Swansea: D

Manchester United: W

Referee: Jonathan Moss 

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Key match stats (supplied by Opta)

The Swans have never kept a clean sheet against Manchester United in the Premier League in 12 contests. The last Swans goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet versus the Red Devils was Dai Davies in December 1982.

Manchester United have won two of their last three Premier League meetings with Swansea (D1), this after losing the previous three all by a 2-1 scoreline.

Swansea attempted just four shots in their opening matchday game away at Southampton, without any of them finding the target - both league-lows on MD1.

The Swans are now unbeaten in their last six Premier League matches (W4 D2 L0) – this is their longest unbeaten run in the competition since a run of seven games between December 2012 and January 2013.

The Welsh club have lost only one of their last eight Premier League home matches (W6 D1 L1) and in their only defeat in this run, they were leading until the 88th minute (1-3 vs Tottenham).

Paul Pogba opened the scoring as Manchester United won 3-1 at Swansea City last season

Paul Pogba opened the scoring as Manchester United won 3-1 at Swansea City last season

Manchester United have only won two points (W0 D2 L2) and scored one goal in their last four Premier League matches away from Old Trafford.

Manchester United have kept more clean sheets in 2017 than any other Premier League team (12).

Last weekend, Romelu Lukaku became the fourth Man Utd player to score a brace on his Premier League debut (also Ruud Van Nistelrooy, James Wilson and Marcus Rashford). Indeed, the Belgian striker is also looking to become the fifth player to net in his first two Premier League appearances for United (also Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Anthony Martial, Federico Macheda and Louis Saha).

Anthony Martial came off the bench to great effect on MD1 becoming the first United player to score and assist a Premier League goal as a substitute since Nani versus Liverpool in March 2008.

Gylfi Sigurdsson has been directly involved in six goals in his last six Premier League games against Manchester United (three goals, three assists) but looks likely to miss this game for the Swans.