Swansea City welcome Watford to the Liberty Stadium on Monday evening in the final game of a hectic week in the Premier League.
The Swans' third game in eight days, and the Hornets' third and nine, both are looking to bounce back from defeat last time out to teams they will have expected to beat.
Recent form
Neither team really come into this game in good spirits, Swansea having lost their last three in a row and Watford three of their last four.
Despite the Hornets' lofty position in the standings, their recent results have been poor, with them managing one win in five and that coming against the struggling Newcastle United.
Their latest defeat was a surprise one too, coming at the hands of a Southampton side who had won just one of their last 10. Goals from Shane Long and Dusan Tadić downed Quique Sánchez Flores' side, and they will be keen to bounce back at the Liberty.
As for the Swans, they will be keener than ever to win this time out, feeling robbed by defeat at home to Sunderland on Wednesday.
Referee Graham Scott played an incredibly large part in the game, awarding a penalty that shouldn't have been and giving Kyle Naughton an undeserved red card, whilst his assistants also failed to help him out - three of Sunderland's goals on the fine line of being offside.
With Alan Curtis livid after the final whistle, and the players assumed to be so too, they will be riled up and have a real fire in their belly for this fixture.
Contrasting fortunes
Just promoted to the Premier League last season, Watford's return to the top flight has been a dream one, with them sat 10th in the standings prior to this round of games.
It could be said that they are having the sort of season everyone expected Swansea to, in fact, whilst the Swans' struggle as many predicted the Hornets would.
Swansea sat one place and one point above the drop zone ahead of this weekend's fixtures, and now find themselves in the bottom three after wins for ----
This will only increase their desire to win on Monday as they look to pull themselves away from danger, whereas Watford search for a victory that can take them three points closer to the total of 40 they are aiming for to achieve certain survival - even if they don't look like going down.
Previous meetings
Somewhat surprisingly, this is just the 11th meeting between these two teams in their history.
This is because, even though neither have been a staple of the Premier League, they have never occupied the same lower divisions - Watford spending 15 of their last 20 seasons in the second tier while the Swans have spent just three of their last 20 there - mainly floating in the third and fourth divisions before their almighty rise.
Taking this into consideration, it perhaps doesn't come as a surprise then that Watford lead the head-to-head, having won five of their previous 10 encounters to Swansea's three - the other two ending all square.
This, however, is just their second meeting in the Premier League and their fourth in the top flight - the Hornets doing the double over their Welsh opponents in the old Division One in the 1982-83 season.
They also won the reverse of this game earlier in the season, Odion Ighalo's strike just before the hour the difference in a 1-0 win at Vicarage Road. Albeit, it was one they had to scrap to hold on to after Valon Behrami was sent off only five minutes later - that being the fixture's first ever red card.
Despite the dominant head-to-head going in their opponents' favour, whilst the two teams were in the Championship together, Swansea lost just one of their six meetings.
Two wins at Vicarage Road in 2010 were sandwiched in between two 1-1 draws at the Liberty, with home wins coming for both in the 2008-09 season.
A 3-2 win in Watford's back garden in September 2010 was their last win over the club, Scott Sinclair, - now at Aston Villa - Stephen Dobbie and Frank Nouble putting them 3-0 up, with Troy Deeney and Martin Taylor trying to claw something back for their team, only for time to run out.
Team news
With no fresh injury concerns for either team, both will have essentially full strength squads for this fixture, though rotation is likely given the recent demands of their schedules.
Watford will be boosted by the return of on-loan Chelsea left-back Nathan Ake, who has been suspended for the last three games after seeing red in the team's 2-1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
Meanwhile, they remain without long-term absentees Rene Gilmartin and Joel Ektstrand.
The only news concerning personnel in Swansea's squad, on the other hand, is that Naughton's red card picked up against Sunderland has been successfully appealed, so he is available to play.
This means Curtis may even be able to manage playing the same side to that that impressed before going a man down against the Black Cats, with them having five days to recuperate since.
