FULHAM v SWANSEA: Latest team news and stats ahead of the Craven Cottage clash

PUBLISHED: 08:47 EST, 22 November 2013 | UPDATED: 14:38 EST, 22 November 2013

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Craven Cottage (Saturday, 3pm)

Fulham team news:

Fulham defender Brede Hangeland will miss Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with Swansea because of a sciatic nerve problem.

Right-back Sascha Riether serves the second match of his three-game suspension while Damien Duff and Hugo Rodellega are out with groin problems.

Hit by nerves: Brede Hangeland (right) will miss out for Fulham at home to Swansea

Matthew Briggs is sidelined after undergoing a hernia operation, but 17-year-old French striker Moussa Dembele has been added to the squad as cover.

Provisional squad: Stekelenburg, Senderos, Amorebieta, Richardson, Dejagah, Parker, Sidwell, Kasami, Ruiz, Berbatov, Kacaniklic, Stockdale, Karagounis, Hughes, Taarabt, Boateng, Bent, Banya, Dembele.

Martin Jol: Swansea play the way we would like to play

Swansea team news:

Swansea will again be without Michu and Pablo Hernandez for Saturday's Barclays Premier League meeting with Fulham.

Michu will be out until the start of December with his ankle injury while Hernandez has suffered a recurrence of a thigh problem and also remains on the sidelines.

Big loss: Swansea's injured forward Michu will be unavailable until December

Garry Monk has undergone knee surgery but Ashley Williams has suffered no problems since his return from an ankle problem, while Michel Vorm is back having served a suspension against Stoke.

Provisional squad: Vorm, Amat, Taylor, Flores, Williams, Britton, Shelvey, Bony, Dyer, Lamah, Routledge, Tiendalli, De Guzman, Canas, Rangel, Pozuelo, Tremmel, Vazquez, Davies.

Big match stats:

Fulham have scored exactly one goal in each of their last six Premier League games at Craven Cottage.

Swansea City have won three of their previous four Premier League meetings with Fulham (L1).

The eight goals that Swansea have scored in their last six Premier League games have all been netted in the second half.

Wilfried Bony has scored 10 goals in 18 competitive appearances for Swansea this season, including three in his last two games.

Paying the penalty: Swansea have won three out of four Premier League meetings with Fulham including a 2-0 victory at the Liberty Stadium in 2011 when Clint Dempsey saw a spot-kick saved by Michel Vorm

Dimitar Berbatov has scored just one goal in 855 minutes of Premier League football this season. In 2012-13, he averaged a goal every 190 minutes (15 in 2847).

Five of Swansea’s 15 Premier League goals this season have come from set-piece situations – they only scored five in this manner in the whole of 2012-13.

Fulham have attempted just 67 shots at goal (excl. blocked) in the Premier League this season; a league-low.

The Whites have conceded a league-high six goals from corners this season.

Four of Fulham’s Premier League goals this season have come from substitutes; including both of Darren Bent’s strikes – no side have scored more by subs.

Swansea have averaged a league-high 568 passes per game in the Premier League this season and have the second-best passing accuracy (86.3 per cent) behind Man City.

*Stats supplied by Opta