Liberty Stadium
Kick-off: 15.00 (GMT)
TV: Highlights, BBC ONE Match of the Day.
Swansea skipper Ashley Williams will make his 300th appearance for the club as manager Garry Monk brings back the senior guard for the Barclays Premier League visit of West Ham on Saturday.
Williams' central defensive partnership with Federico Fernandez will be restored after Monk named a makeshift team for the FA Cup victory at Tranmere and England Under-20 midfielder Matt Grimes and Portuguese loan striker Nelson Oliveira are included in the squad for the first time after January moves.
Top scorer Wilfried Bony, who is on the verge of completing a £30million transfer to Manchester City, and Ki Sung-yueng are both away on international duty while Jonjo Shelvey (suspension) and Jefferson Montero (hamstring) remain unavailable.
West Ham duo Diafra Sakho and Cheikhou Kouyate are ruled out of the Hammers' visit to Swansea in the Barclays Premier League on Saturday.
Kouyate has departed to play for Senegal at the African Nations Cup and Sakho was expected to join him but the striker suffered a recurrence of a back injury against West Brom on New Year's Day and has remained at West Ham.
Sam Allardyce has no other injury concerns for the clash at the Liberty Stadium, where the Hammers will be looking to register their first win in four league matches.
Starting XIs
Swansea City (possible, 4-2-3-1): Fabianski; Rangel, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor; Britton, Carroll; Dyer, Sigurdsson, Routledge; Gomis
Injured: Shelvey (suspension), Montero (hamstring)
Out: Bony and Ki (international duty)
West Ham United (possible, 4-1-2-1-2): Adrian; Jenkinson, Collins, Reid, Cresswell; Song; Nolan, Noble; Downing; Valencia, Carroll
Injured: Sakho (back)
Out: Kouyate (international duty)
Match notes
A life without Wilfried Bony will become apparent for the Liberty Stadium, with the striker first away on African Nations Cup duty with Ivory Coast before his expected £30-million move to Manchester City. There is great hope in Swansea that Bafétimbi Gomis will fill the huge hole and this will be a sizeable test for the French international. Sam Allardyce should have Andy Carroll back from the foot injury which kept him out of the FA Cup draw at Everton as West Ham look for their first League win in four games.
Referee: Mike Dean: 14 Y63 R4
Betting: Home 13-10, Away 11-5 Draw 11-5
Stat of the game: West Ham have scored more headed goals – 14 – than any other team in the top flight.
James Corrigan's prediction: Swansea 1 West Ham 1
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