Billy Jones: Swansea can be Sunderland's first win

Billy Jones believes Sunderland can “kick-start” their season with a victory over Swansea at the Stadium of Light this weekend.

Sunderland are bottom of the Premier League after losing both of their opening games, including a 3-1 defeat to Norwich last Saturday.

“Obviously I’m just massively disappointed because we’ve let ourselves down again," Jones told the club's official website.

"We gave ourselves a mountain to climb being 2-0 down at half-time through two disappointing goals from our point of view.

“It wasn’t just the goals, it was also our general performance; I feel that we didn’t start particularly well and it’s going to be back to the drawing board, having a look at videos and having a look at what we need to do to improve our performances first and foremost."

He continued: “The only way we can kick-start [our season] is by winning games and we’ve got a massive chance to do that against Swansea.

"Obviously everyone knows what a good team Swansea are so that’ll be a statement in itself to beat them on our home turf and beat them with a good performance.

“We know it’s going to be a really tough game but we’ve got another week to work hard on the training pitch, so hopefully we can put in a better performance on Saturday which gets us the three points."

Swansea have picked up four points from their opening two games after an opening day draw against Chelsea and victory over Newcastle United on Saturday.