Bournemouth vs Swansea preview: Eddie Howe closes in on remarkable survival with Cherries

LEROY FER: The former QPR man impressed as a substitute against Norwich last week and could be set for a recall against Bournemouth.

A couple of weeks ago this game looked set to be a relegation six pointer and whilst neither team can rest on their laurels just yet, back to back wins for Swansea and seven points from a possible nine for Bournemouth have propelled them 9 and 11 points clear of the bottom 3 respectively.

Fer suffered back to back relegations with Norwich in 2014 and QPR in 2015, the Dutch international will be desperate to impress again if given a chance and help his side boost their hopes of survival even more.

0: If Bournemouth are able to pick up a win against Swansea it would be the first time all season they have won back-to-back home games all season.

Back in November these two sides played out an end-to-end thriller at the Liberty Stadium which saw the home side come from two goals behind to level it up at 2-2 before the half-time whistle had even been blown.

GYLFI SIGURDSSON: If Swansea go on to beat the drop and preserve their Premier League status it will be in large part down to the goals and all round play of their Icelandic midfielder.

Sigurdsson has been exceptional of late, scoring six in his last ten appearances including the winners in narrow victories at Everton and at home to Norwich last time out. Sigurdsson has been Swansea’s best player for the majority of this campaign and you suspect that he will be at the heart of any positive result the Swans are able to pick up on the south-coast.

Swansea 2 (Ayew, Shelvey) Bournemouth 2 (King, Gosling), Premier League, November 2015

Swansea 1 (Robinson) Bournemouth 2 (Kuffour, Partington), League One, April 2008

Bournemouth 1 (Bradbury) Swansea 4 (Bodde, Lawrence, Feeney 2), League One, October 2007

Bournemouth: LLLDWW

Swansea: DDLLWW

KICK-OFF TIME: 15:00

TV: highlights on BBC1 : 22:40