Swansea City: Luke Williams demands more despite progress

Luke Williams reckons his Swansea City side cannot do much more defensively - but says they must continue to improve in the final third to maintain their good form.

After a six-game winless streak - and a painful five-match sequence without a goal - Swansea have lifted spirits with successive Championship victories over Watford and Oxford United.

Zan Vipotnik and Florian Bianchini struck at Oxford last weekend before another summer recruit, Myles Peart-Harris, scored the only goal against Watford.

After dominating against the Hornets for an hour, Swansea withstood a spell of late pressure to keep a fifth clean sheet of the season.

Williams feels his players are showing signs that they can be a competitive Championship outfit, though he wants more progress in attack.

"There arenâ€TMt many teams who you think were a really good side but they couldnâ€TMt defend, or they were really good [defensively] but couldn't pass the ball for toffee," the Swansea head coach said.

"I think you have to do both. Hopefully we are showing that we are pretty mean defensively - we donâ€TMt ship too many goals and we have a lot of clean sheets.

"The big challenge was that we had to score more goals and we are scoring more, but I think still we can increase that with the ball we have and the attacking actions we have."

No side outside the Championship's top six have conceded fewer goals than Swansea, who have been breached only nine times in 14 league fixtures and have not lost a game by more than one goal all season.

But despite this week's successes, Swansea remain the lowest scorers in the division, having netted only nine times so far.

"I think we will have to go some to be a better side defensively - I think we are there pretty much," added Williams, whose team are next in action at Burnley on Sunday.

"But we have to try to continue to make more of the volume of ball we have."