Vitor Matos insisted once again that he is unconcerned about the Championship table despite seeing Swansea City climb into the top 10 courtesy of Tuesday's 2-1 victory at Queens Park Rangers.
Swansea deservedly triumphed after an impressive performance at Loftus Road, though their success was contentious given that Zan Vipotnik scored the winner from a penalty Matos said should not have been awarded.
The Swans went in front early on through Ronald and eventually stretched their advantage when Vipotnik swept home after Tylon Smith's challenge on Eom Jisung.
While there was no question that Smith had fouled Eom, the contact appeared to occur just outside the Rangers area.
The stroke of luck proved key for Swansea given that Rhys Norrington-Davies pulled a goal back for Rangers in the final minute of normal time.
Victory means Matos' men are up to 10th, their highest league position since September, and have the chance to improve on last year's 11th-place finish with two games remaining in 2025-26.
But as he has done since taking charge last November, Matos brushed off talk of the table.
"I have been saying and I will say again, we will try to squeeze everything out of the season," the Swansea head coach said.
"The most important thing is what we want to build, the mentality, the values, the culture. That's massive for us and I think we are proving that in the last few games.
"Now we have a really tough game at Norwich [on Saturday], a really big travel, then one more game [at home to Charlton] and we'll see where we finish.
"The most important thing is to build the performances, to grow and understand the games and show more flexibility, more ways to control and dominate the game. We just keep pushing."
