{"id":180960,"date":"2025-10-06T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180960\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:15:15","slug":"team-news-blackburn-rovers-v-swansea-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180960\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news | Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goncalo Franco returns to the Swansea City line-up while Manuel Benson makes his first league start for the club against Blackburn Rovers tonight (7.45pm).<\/p>\n<p>There is also a notable milestone for Josh Tymon as he is set to make his 100th appearance for the Swans.<\/p>\n<p>Franco comes in for Malick Yalcouye in the Swans midfield, while Benson takes the place of Ronald on the flank for the clash at Ewood Park.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors are otherwise unchanged from the draw against Millwall with Lawrence Vigouroux in goal behind a defence of Josh Key, captain Ben Cabango, Cameron Burgess and centurion Tymon.<\/p>\n<p>Franco slots in alongside Marko Stamenic and Ethan Galbraith in the middle of the park, while Benson and Zeidane Inoussa are out wide.<\/p>\n<p>In-form striker Zan Vipotnik leads the line for the Swans in East Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango (captain), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon; Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith; Manuel Benson, Zeidane Inoussa; \u017dan Vipotnik.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Malick Yalcouye, Jisung Eom, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Liam Cullen, Kaelan Casey, Adam Idah, Ronald.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn Rovers: Balazs Toth, Ryan Alebiosu, Yuri Ribeiro, Taylor Gardner-Hickman, Sondre Tronstad, Todd Cantwell (captain), Andri Gudjohnsen, Lewis Miller, Sean McLoughlin, Ryan Hedges, Ryoya Morishita.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Aynsley Pears, Harry Pickering, Augustus Kargbo, Sidnei Tavares, Dion De Neve, Scott Wharton, Axel Henriksson, Yuki Ohashi, Kristi Montgomery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goncalo Franco returns to the Swansea City line-up while Manuel Benson makes his first league start for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-180960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}