Saturday 5 May 2018 19:13, UK
Swansea boss Carlos Carvalhal is confident his side will stay in the Premier League because survival is in their own hands.
The Swans slipped to a damaging 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth, going down to Ryan Fraser's first-half goal, and missed the chance to move clear of the bottom three.
Their run of seven games without a win, the last three of which they have failed to score, has pulled them back into danger, but they will be playing in the top flight again next season if they beat Southampton on Tuesday, live on Sky Sports, and Stoke next Sunday.
The Portuguese believes that is a situation everyone would have taken when he came to the club in December.
"I am not worried because we depend on ourselves," Carvalhal said.
"When we arrived if I would have said we have two games to finish the season and it would be possible to stay in the Premier then no one would have believed me.
"It was really bad and no one would have believed me. We have these things in our hands, we can do it, let's do it."
Swansea's final two games of the season will be at the Liberty Stadium where they have lost just one of their last six Premier League matches.
And Carvalhal thinks playing in front of their own fans can have a big impact.
"In the Liberty Stadium we are more strong, my team play better at home, the fans are making a big impact," he added.
"When you depend on yourself, we can do it. You don't need to look at other teams, you must look to ourselves.
"In reality we play two home games and we are happy about that."
Swansea were not without their chances at the Vitality Stadium as Mike van der Hoorn was brilliantly denied by Asmir Begovic and then Martin Olsson and Jordan Ayew missed clear opportunities.
In the end, Fraser's 37th-minute goal, where he curled in from 20 yards after a short free-kick, did for the Swans.
"We had two or three very clear chances to score and against Bournemouth it is important to score first," Carvalhal said.
"We had the chances but we didn't score, they scored and they kept the game they liked it.
"The goal was the moment of the game because it changed everything."
