Swansea City: Vitor Matos tells fans to dream and players to focus

The Rams won 2-1 at Swansea.com Stadium in November in Matos’ first game in charge of the Welsh club.

Four days later, after being beaten 3-2 at West Bromwich despite going 2-0 in front, Swansea were only outside the bottom three on goal difference and looked in serious relegation danger.

But Matos has rejuvenated a squad, who were underperforming in the latter days of Alan Sheehan’s reign, with the gap to the drop zone currently standing at 10 points.

While there is still work to do to wipe out any chance of relegation, Swansea fans are – for the moment at least – looking up the table rather than down.

Matos claims he is not interested in Swansea’s league position, with all attention for now on a Derby side who are also in good form.

“We don’t play the table, we play the games and thankfully it’s one at each time, that helps a lot!” Matos added.

“It’s up to us to focus on our training because always when you put 50% in you get 50% out.