Matos plays down play-off talk despite Swans' form

Vitor Matos brushed off talk of a potential play-off push despite seeing Swansea City continue their upturn in fortunes with a thumping win over Sheffield Wednesday.

Swansea are up to 15th in the Championship – their highest position in more than three months – and only five points adrift of the top six after Sunday's 4-0 demolition of the Owls.

Matos says his squad has "a lot of potential" – but insists their only focus is on being "the best possible team to compete" in each game they play.

"That's what we are trying," he added.

"In the Championship this season, you win one game, you think you are close to the play-offs, you lose one game, you think you are close to the relegation.

"So being emotionally stable, I think that's quite important and I think that's what mindset we need to have."

Swansea were only outside the bottom three on goal difference after defeat at West Brom on 29 November, but have since taken 25 points from their past 13 games to ease relegation concerns.

Realistically, a run to the play-offs looks unlikely for a Swansea side who have spent much of 2025-26 trying to keep themselves away from a relegation fight.

But the fact is that if Matos' men can maintain the form they have produced over the past three months, they could push themselves into top-six contention in the final stages of the season.

"Yeah, but for that [to happen] we need to keep improving and that's why we cannot focus on the product and we need to focus on the process," Matos added.

"That's what, until this moment, made us what we are and I think that's what we need to do for the next game, because then it is again three games in a short period of time after that one.

"That makes us again in a really tough place because we play a game, two days, game, two days, game."

Swansea, who have won three of their past four matches, return to action with a trip to ninth-placed Derby County next weekend knowing victory would put them level on points with the Rams.

They then face back-to-back home fixtures against two more play-off contenders, Bristol City and Preston, before a trip to high-flying Ipswich Town.