Swansea City 3-2 Preston North End: result and report
Championship · Saturday 17 August 2019
Result
Swansea City 3-2 Preston North End
Championship · Saturday 17 August 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Swansea City 3-2 Preston North End: match report
Swansea City beat Preston North End 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 17 August 2019. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Joe Rafferty opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Swansea City's goals came from Borja Bastón (45+4'), George Byers (63') and Borja Bastón (69'). Preston North End scored through Joe Rafferty (11') and Daniel Johnson (67', penalty).
Discipline: Swansea City received no yellow cards; Preston North End received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Swansea City were 10th on 4 points from 2 and Preston North End 11th on 3 points from 2. Swansea City went on to finish that season 6th with 73 points, and Preston North End 9th with 66.
Swansea City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Preston North End in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Borja Bastón of Swansea City (8.3), ahead of Paul Gallagher (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Swansea City wins, 1 draw and 2 for Preston North End.
Key events
- 11'Goal · Joe Rafferty
- 18'Yellow card · Darnell Fisher
- 45+4'Goal · Borja Bastón
- 63'Goal · George Byers
- 67'Penalty goal · Daniel Johnson
- 69'Goal · Borja Bastón
Head-to-head
Team news
Swansea City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Freddie Woodman, Joe Rodon, Mike van der Hoorn, Connor Roberts, Jake Bidwell, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes, Bersant Celina, Nathan Dyer, Aldo Kalulu, Borja Bastón
Preston North End line-up (4-1-4-1)
Declan Rudd, Darnell Fisher, Ben Davies, Joe Rafferty, Patrick Bauer, Ben Pearson, Daniel Johnson, Paul Gallagher, Sean Maguire, Billy Bodin, L. Moult