Vitor Matos has suggested league positions count for nothing as Swansea City look to bounce back to form against three of the Championship's form sides.

Swansea host Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, 31 October, before going to Portsmouth next Tuesday and Birmingham City the following weekend.

All three opponents are enjoying positive runs – and currently sit inside the top half of the table.

Swansea have enjoyed a fine start to the season, yet a glance at their results shows they have fared much better against teams who are lower down the division.

Of the Swans' seven league wins so far, six have come against clubs who are currently in the Championship's bottom half.

In their five games against top 12 teams, Swansea have suffered three defeats and managed only one victory, at Stoke City on the opening day of the league campaign.

But as Swansea attempt to conjure a response after their most difficult week of 2026-27, Matos insists the league table "doesn't show a lot of things" at this stage of the season.

"Each game is really hard, each game is really competitive, each game is really demanding," the Swansea head coach said.

"It's not about the position in the table; it's much more about the opponent, what they do well, and a lot of teams in this league do a lot of good things, independent of the position they're in.

"I think that's the lesson of what you are saying. I think if you play the first against the last [in the table], it will be a good game."

Swansea will attempt to avoid suffering a third successive defeat for the first time under Matos when they take on Tony Mowbray's (pictured above) Blackburn, who have climbed to 10th on the back of four wins in their past six matches.

"They have a really experienced manager who knows what is important to be really competitive in the league, likes to play good football like all his teams did," Matos said.

"They have a good squad, well organised, aggressive in the goal-kick press, really good offensive dynamics as well, so it's important for us to be really organised defending-wise and then like always try to impose ourselves."