Frank Lampard and Joel Latibeaudiere look ahead to Coventry City's trip to Swansea 🎙️

It's an opportunity to keep going. It's not easy to string wins together in this league at times. We'll strive for consistency. We're really pleased with the three wins in the league back-to-back. It helps feeling of slight momentum but we always have to demand more because the minute you don't demand more this league will kick you. We go into it with some good confidence but an understanding that we start again, trying to get our fourth win. Is the biggest change the fact that you're not conceding goals so much now? Is that something you've done specifically that's improved that? We've worked a lot on it. It's probably been our main focus in terms of our work out of possession throughout the pitch, higher up the pitch, in all areas to be more compact and to be aggressive in a good way to try and stop teams playing through us and many things so it's something we're focused on. It's nice that it's improved but it's another work in progress. There's still lots of improvements we can make. The minute we become sloppy that will change instantly so it's important that we stay on our sails with that. The formation you played, you played partly because of the personnel available but it seems to be working. Is that giving you food for thought? Yes, as it stands yes. I felt when I came in that the squad was adaptable in a sense of it has played a back three, it has played a back four and it's gone between. It's a good thing that I knew the players had played in both and could understand both. Everyone works differently and we might want to work a back three different to anyone else. It's given me food for thought and the possibilities to be able to change in game once players come back to fitness we'll re-look at what we want to do. Playing the two up front is a little bit different as well, is that making you a little bit more potent do you think? Yes, it's football isn't it? If you become two up front there you look different elsewhere so it's trying to work with the best of the players that you have. They've put in the strongest players and combinations on the pitch. When you play two strikers together I think you give them a better chance to play off each other and cause a problem as a pair and that's different going into the last four games that we've played. I've talked about strikers maybe not being clinical enough, not taking chances enough when you have two and maybe that shares the load slightly between them. The ones that have been starting and Norman coming on, it's looked good. Again it can continue and it can look better. You're in a good role, Swansea on the other hand, I think it's one point from the last five Championship games, are you getting them at a good time? No, I wouldn't say so. I understand it. Each game, we've already mentioned the possibilities around this game and I never consider that it's there. We're going away from home. Have we won enough games away from home? No. We want to just consider ourselves and we want a good run, try and use that momentum but we're not here to predict what Swansea turns up quite. Probably we have to expect the best Swansea and the best Swansea absolutely can compete with any team in this league. Are you a believer in records against teams having a bad day? I've been told that. Am I a believer? I don't know. Yes and no, I've had moments where I believe in those things. Records are there to be broken but they also mean something and maybe there's a reason sometimes but I guess I and we as coaching staff are fresh to that record. We've just been told it this week so let's see. Are these cars left? Is that about you building your own backroom staff? Yes, different reasons but Rhys has left and I think the club have already explained that loud how much they've appreciated his time here at the club. He was obviously caretaker manager for the time, the interim time and we absolutely wish him the best. Does that give you a space to bring someone in? At the moment no. We're very hands-on in the coaching staff in terms of the people I've brought with me. We know how we want to work. We work very hands-on on the training pitch. When we come into a job like this mid-season we want to affect it. We want to affect it on the training ground, affect it in every meeting, affect it in every moment and for me that's how things should work. So that's how we're going. It's a heavy schedule ahead with the Leeds game that we brought forward to the mid-week. Is that something you're comfortable with? It wasn't ideal for us but it is what it is. Is the squad able to cope with the number of games you've got coming up? I hope so. I hope so. We'll manage us. It's not one to complain about too much. The Championship at times just throws up heavy schedules so we'll try and manage the squad as best as we can and take all these games on. The changing room, the dressing room, everything's feeling really good. A lot of positivity but it's now just we've got to keep doing it. We've got to back it up, keep backing it up. Last week was massive for us. A nine-point week, very rare in this league. That's what we wanted to do and we set our goals and we did it. What's happened defensively? Why are you not conceding goals now where you were earlier in the season? I think since the gaffer's come in, a big thing was distances between the front and the back of the team and the amount that we've closed that gap and got the distances really good and being brave with our line has impacted us massively in terms of winning the ball back but also not allowing the other teams to get close to our goal. And then just little basic reminders, things that you learn when you're a kid playing football but just having the basic reminders and still practising those has been massive. So yeah, give props to the coaching staff as well and what they've done since they've come in has been really good. And playing three at the back, have you enjoyed that? Yeah, I honestly don't mind if it's a five or a four, so three centre-backs or two. I think with the personnel that we've got right now, with the few injuries that we've had, it probably suits us to play with the fives of the wing-backs. But yeah, I'm always enjoying when I'm on the pitch. And there's four centre-halves at the moment, three places, and the gaffer seems to be sort of rotating you a bit. Is there a rivalry among you? There's healthy competition, you know, and I think it's good because it means that training is always 100 per cent, every time there's a meeting it's always detailed and you're trying to take everything in because you want to be in the team. And like I said, it's not really rivalry, I'd say, but at the same time there's three positions at the minute and four people want to play. So I think it's important to have that healthy competition and yeah, it's making us train really well and I think that's shown on the pitch. So if you are the one that's on the bench for the game, what's your reaction to that? Just to get your head down, support the team, you know, you're still part of it, you never know what can happen. Subs have made a massive impact in the last two games especially and yeah, keep working to get yourself in that starting team. Now going to Swansea, obviously your former club, is that something you're looking forward to? Yeah, I always look forward to going back, playing at a stadium that I'm used to playing at and yeah, I know it's going to be a good game of football as well, they're a real footballing team, so yeah, I'm excited to go back and play. What sort of reception are you expecting from the home crowd? To be fair, last year obviously I didn't get the greatest, I didn't expect that to be honest but now it is what it is, so we'll have to see. I think a lot of the fans, well, I don't know actually, we'll have to wait and see I guess. They seem to be going through a difficult patch, fans unhappy at one point for the last five games, so is this an opportunity for you do you think? Yeah, definitely. I think with the form that we're in, we've got to see this as a massive opportunity and we've got to go there wanting to take the three points. Has anyone told you that Coppice City haven't won in Swansea since 1950? Yeah, we've heard it a lot but you know, it's there to be broken isn't it, so hopefully this team can do it. It's an incentive isn't it, it's an opportunity. Yeah, exactly, exactly.