Saturday 27 September 2014 08:08, UK
Gus Poyet is not putting any added pressure on his Sunderland side as they look to end their Premier League win drought.
Poyet's men have drawn four of their five league games so far this season and head into Saturday's home clash with Swansea just outside the early bottom three.
While Poyet would love to see their frustrating winless run come to an end, he would not call failure to beat the high-flying Swans a disaster as he feels the team is making very good progress.
He said: "I would like to think that we are heading in a good direction. We are okay, the players are quite happy.
"They know their role in the team, there is good competition, we have got options, so we don't want to go into this game already thinking, 'If we don't win tomorrow, it's a nightmare'.
"It shouldn't be like that - I don't want it to be like that. Yes, we play the game to win, but it's going to be the same the week after.
"It's not as if you win two games and then you can lose the next one. That's not the mentality that we want."
Poyet is a big fan of what has been done at Swansea over the last decade, work started off by Roberto Martinez and most recently taken on by Garry Monk.
When asked if it was a surprise to see them in the early top-six, Poyet added: "It's not, because it's a club that if you take away the top six, seven from the rest of the teams in the league, it's the one that's got a little but of an advantage on the rest of the teams.
"Why? Because they have been playing this system for many, many years from Roberto Martinez's time there, because they buy players to play that way, because they don't change, because they stick by it, because they know how to play the game.
"That's something that in football helps because it makes you better than the opposition, especially when the opposition needs to restart every year and search for players and wait.
"That's why we ask for time as managers, because if you have got that system in the club when you arrive and you are able to buy players to play that way, you have got a big plus.
"From the bottom 13 or 14, they are the team that has got something different to the rest."
