The improvements behind Swansea City's upturn and the challenge Luke Williams now faces

In the space of just a few days, the narrative around Swansea City's season has noticeably shifted.

After the gut punch of a defeat against Millwall, the conversation was understandably dominated by a goal drought that had suddenly begun to weigh heavy around the neck of Luke Williams, and indeed his players.

Now, Swansea have racked up two wins in the space of four days, scored three goals, and now sit two points away from the play-offs.

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It's just the latest example of how quickly things can change, particularly in the Championship.

And yet Williams hasn't really changed an awful lot - not in terms of system, anyway.

Little tweaks, for instance playing winger Florian Bianchini through the middle, have certainly given his side another dimension, but there's not really been any sort of radical changes.

Instead, it feels more like a case of a young side starting to find its feet, and the confidence to express itself.

Williams has privately been of the opinion that several members of his side have needed time to get up to speed with the Championship. Zan Vipotnik, who despite netting the second goal of his Swans career in the win over Oxford United, is perhaps a pertinent example.

There's no shortage of belief from his boss, who's understood to have been wowed by the striker's ability in training, but there's a feeling that the speed of the Championship has, up until this point, been beyond what the 22-year-old has been used to.

Vipotnik, by his own admission subsequently hasn't quite lived up to the fanfare surrounding his arrival from Bordeaux in the summer.

"It's tough for me," he admitted after that goal at the Kassam Stadium. "I know my team-mates want to give me the ball to score goals. I'm here for that. I didn't do my job well, and I hope this goal will help the team and me also."

However, Williams is adamant the striker has all the tools to succeed, although he admittedly feels time and patience will still be needed before we see him at his best.

It's a message that probably extends to several other members of what is a relatively young squad.

However, the recent form of Myles Peart-Harris, who netted his first Swans goal on Tuesday night, is perhaps one indication that this largely inexperienced side are starting to get to grips with the challenges of the Championship.

"He’s a young player, never played at the level before, whose very quickly adapting," Williams said after the win over Watford. "Now he’s doing more than adapting, he’s looking more and more comfortable. This is brilliant.

"I love the goal because he had a couple of chances in previous games that I think he didn't assert himself as much, maybe didn't believe in that moment he was going to score. But he ended up in the goal with the ball tonight. I love that."

For all the progress, there will still clearly be concerns over the balance of the squad. Certainly there are some areas where Swansea remain a little thin.

But their improvements in attacking areas don't appear to have come at the cost of what remains a really impressive defensive foundation.

Tuesday saw the Swans keep their fifth clean sheet of the season, with this latest defensive performance denying Watford a single shot on target.

Sunday's opponents Burnley are one of only four sides to have conceded fewer. In fact, Swansea are yet to concede more than once in a league game this term.

An increased attacking verve clearly hasn't come at the expense of conceding goals, and that's something that should really please supporters.

Williams will certainly hold it up as one example of the recent strides made, as he bids to inject some much-needed excitement into the Jack Army again.

Indeed, one of the few negatives from Tuesday night was the size of the crowd, with just over 12,869 watching this latest win, the lowest attendance at the Swansea.com Stadium since April 2019.

One of the big challenges looming for Williams now is to create a team that will once again capture the imagination. A tough task that might take more than just results alone.

But in terms of getting bums on seats, he might just feel the last few days have been a step in the right direction.

"When I look at the performances and try to look at the data in the performances – I know it's not the most exciting thing in the world, but that's what we have to do – and when I watch the games with my own eye, I feel like we are becoming a team with an identity," Williams said.

"I think many of the games [this season] we have been able to make look the same. I think if we win more of those games, then we have a very good feeling.

"But I feel like we are going in the right direction and we are creating an identity where we can now establish ourselves in more games than not."

"The way the players approached the game from the beginning – very intense, concentrating a lot, playing really good attacking football and very quickly destroying opposition attacks…" Williams added.

"This is the type of football I think is enjoyable and I hope it's more enjoyable for the fans when we play like that."