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Russell Martin hopeful Swansea City-Southampton FA Cup tie will happen after Covid outbreak

Russell Martin is hopeful Swansea City will return to action against Southampton on Saturday after a Covid-19 outbreak which saw the Championship club close their training ground.

Swansea have not played since defeat to Nottingham Forest on 11 December having seen four games postponed.

Martin is "looking forward to getting everyone back together" having had only 10 players available last week.

"Hopefully we are over the worst of it," said the Swansea head coach.

"The last time I spoke [just before Christmas] we had just a couple of cases, but that rose a lot in the few days after that.