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Swansea City Vs. Oldham Athletic
Saturday 21.04.2001
Vetch Field
Nationwide League Division 2
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Team News

John Hollins has told his players to forget their relegation rivals and focus on winning their last five games of the season ahead of the home clash with Oldham tomorrow.

"The mood of myself and the players is fine, exactly the same as it has been all along," said Hollins."We are not exactly jumping through hoops, but we are confident we can do the business tomorrow. "We have to get a victory and we will put out an attacking line-up to try to win by as many goals as possible. "If we win our last five games that's all we can do. There's no point worrying about others now." The Swans must take maximum points from now until the end of the season and hope either Swindon or Cambridge fail to pick up a single point from their remaining matches.

"We have to rely on others now which we did not want to do. But we just have to carry on as normal," added Hollins.

"We're working on things to help us beat Oldham. We could do with an early goal to settle us down and we must pressurise the opposition so they cannot play at their leisure.

"Our final ball and our finishing let us down at Port Vale, and that must improve."

Hollins said he had not thought about the prospect of life back in Division Three yet, though he had begun to consider the squad he wants at Vetch Field next season. "I have thought about the players who I'm going to keep and about those, who for whatever reason, want to move on. "I would be doing that wherever we were in the league, so we're doing all the normal things."

Tomorrow, Hollins will be without top scorer Giovanni Savarese who joined up with the Venezuela squad in South America yesterday.

But he does have strikers Walter Boyd, Steve Watkin and Matthias Verschave to choose from. Skipper Nick Cusack may return from a hamstring strain, while Kristian O'Leary could also be back. Fellow defenders Jason Smith and Steve Jones are back in training but remain very doubtful.

League Positions
Pos
-
Pld
PTS
12th D2
Oldham
43
55
23rd D2
Swansea
41
33
Head 2 Head
ALL MEETINGS
W
D
L
Vs. Oldham
15
15
12
Recent Meetings
DATE
H/A
SCORE
-
04.11.00
A
1-1 D
Div 2
20.11.99
A
1-0 L
FA Cup
06.10.93
A
2-0 L
L. Cup
21.09.93
H
2-1 W
L. Cup
17.03.84
A
3-3 D
Div 2
06.09.83
H
0-0 D
Div 2
Recent Form
-
SEQUENCE
Swansea
DDLLLWDL
Oldham
LLWDWDW
Team Prediction
SWANSEA
OLDHAM Ath
Freestone Howard Todd Bound Fabiano Roberts Romo Philips Price Boyd Verschave
Kelly McNiven Garnett Hotte Carss Prenderville Duxbury Salt Eyres Tipton Corazzin
Score Prediction
Swans 2 Lactics 1
Lactic's Directory
Div 2 Fixtures
Bristol R vs Oxford Luton vs Bury Northampton vs Colchester Notts Co vs Bristol C Peterborough vs Bournemouth Reading vs Walsall Stoke vs Wrexham Wigan vs Rotherham Wycombe vs Swindon
One 2 Watch : Sam Parkin
Sam Parkin, born in Roehampton, is a very promising young Chelsea player. He has signed for Latics till the end of the season and could prove to be a good loan signing. He turned 20 about a week ago has found it hard to get near the Chelsea team so he has gone out on loan to gain first team experience due to the glut of international forwards at Stamford Bridge. Parkin is a tall player a holds a big physical presence

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