Who will win when Swansea City visit Plymouth Argyle? In this preview you'll find all the relevant information and data needed to get smart.
- Plymouth Argyle have the the best goal difference (+7) at home in Championship
- All of Swansea City's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
It's no vacation for neither Plymouth nor Swansea City as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Plymouth Argyle form and stats
Plymouth Argyle have played 5 Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-0-2 (wins-draws-losses).
The Plymouth Argyle crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Millwall here at Home Park. The defeat against Millwall was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored seven minutes into stoppage time (by Saville). The attacker Whittaker was announced as "man of the match" for Plymouth Argyle with the rating of 8.02/10. Whittaker hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 5 of 10 times and had 32 successful passes (of 37 total).
Preceding that game was the away draw at Hull City that finished 1-1.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Plymouth Argyle have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 7, drawn 0 and lost 3.
Plymouth are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Home Park in their league games, having scored an impressive 13 goals in 5 matches. Plymouth Argyle have conceded 6 in these home matches.
Swansea City form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Impressive finishing from Humphreys and Lowe secured the home win 2-1 against Norwich City in their previous game. Lowe has scored at least one goal for this side three games in a row. The competence! Lowe got a match rating of 7.7 in that game, top player of the team. Lowe scored one goal.
Before that one, a nice away victory 3-0 at Millwall.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Swansea City playing away and similar expectations, we found 15 relevant matches. Results were 4 Swansea City wins, 7 draws and 4 defeats.
The visiting Swansea City have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 7 goals from 5 games. In the opposite end, Swansea have conceded 8 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Swansea City have won or drawn the last 5 fixtures (4-1-0) facing Plymouth Argyle.Top Goalscorers
  R. Hardie 5 goals |  M. Whittaker 4 goals |   J. Yates 3 goals |
Plymouth Argyle missing players
Swansea City missing players
| Plymouth Argyle | Swansea City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 17 | 13 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 15 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 13 |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 80% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 80% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 30% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 70% | 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 60% | 70% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| 20% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 5.9 | 5.4 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 4.2 |
| 7.7 | 6.8 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.2 | 5.4 |
| 1.4 | 1.6 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15.2 | 17.8 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 9.4 | 11.2 |
| 6.1 | 6.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.2 | 4 |
| 28% | 38% | 12% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 44% | 38% |
| 15.5 | 14.8 | 14 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 22 | 13.6 | 13 |
| 4.8 | 5 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
- All of Swansea City's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Plymouth Argyle have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Plymouth Argyle have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Plymouth Argyle have the the best goal difference (+7) at home in Championship
- Plymouth Argyle haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Swansea City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Leicester City | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 27 |
| 2 | Ipswich Town | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 25 |
| 3 | Preston North End | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 20 |
| 4 | Sunderland | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 19 |
| 5 | West Bromwich Albion | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 6 | Leeds United | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
| 7 | Norwich City | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Cardiff City | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 16 |
| 9 | Hull City | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 16 |
| 10 | Southampton | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 16 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 12 | Birmingham City | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 15 |
| 13 | Coventry City | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 14 |
| 14 | Millwall | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 14 |
| 15 | Swansea City | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 12 |
| 16 | Plymouth Argyle | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 17 | Middlesbrough | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 11 |
| 18 | Stoke City | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 10 |
| 19 | Huddersfield Town | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -7 | 10 |
| 20 | Blackburn Rovers | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
| 21 | Watford | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -2 | 9 |
| 22 | Queens Park Rangers | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -8 | 8 |
| 23 | Rotherham United | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 13 | -12 | 5 |
| 24 | Sheffield Wednesday | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -13 | 2 |
