Preston North End 2-1 Swansea City: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 5 November 2025

Result

Preston North End 2-1 Swansea City

Championship · Wednesday 5 November 2025, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

Preston North End · Swansea City · Championship predictions

Preston North End 2-1 Swansea City: match report

Preston North End won against Swansea City 2-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 5 November 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Thierry Small opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Preston North End's goals came from Thierry Small (8') and Milutin Osmajic (49'). Swansea City scored through Ji-sung Eom (80').

Discipline: Preston North End received 3 yellow cards; Swansea City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Preston North End were 6th on 22 points from 13 and Swansea City 17th on 17 points from 13. Preston North End went on to finish that season 14th with 60 points, and Swansea City 11th with 64.

Preston North End lined up in a 3-1-4-2 and Swansea City in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ethan Galbraith of Swansea City (8.2), ahead of Ji-sung Eom (7.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Preston North End wins, 1 draw and 5 for Swansea City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Thierry SmallPreston North End · 1-0
  • 48'Yellow card · Ben WhitemanPreston North End
  • 49'Goal · Milutin OsmajicPreston North End · 2-0
  • 61'Yellow card · Thierry SmallPreston North End
  • 80'Goal · Ji-sung EomSwansea City · 2-1
  • 82'Yellow card · Andrew HughesPreston North End
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Ishé Samuels-SmithSwansea City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Preston North End 4, draws 1, Swansea City 5.

Team news

Preston North End line-up (3-1-4-2)

Daniel Iversen, Jordan Storey, Liam Lindsay, Andrew Hughes, Ben Whiteman, O. Offiah, Harrison Armstrong, Alfie Devine, Thierry Small, Lewis Dobbin, Milutin Osmajic

Swansea City line-up (3-4-2-1)

Lawrence Vigouroux, Ben Cabango, Kaelan Casey, Cameron Burgess, Josh Key, Gonçalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith, Josh Tymon, Melker Widell, Liam Cullen, Adam Idah