'Sheehan very much a Steve Cooper-type'

Iwan Roberts says Swansea City caretaker head coach Alan Sheehan reminds him of the club's former boss Steve Cooper.

Swansea were glancing nervously towards the Championship relegation places when Sheehan replaced Luke Williams in February.

But Sheehan's team have since taken 23 points from 11 matches to climb to within six points of the play-off spots with two games remaining this season.

Cooper, the former Nottingham Forest and Leicester City boss, began his senior club managerial career at Swansea, leading the Welsh club to the Championship play-offs in 2020 and 2021.

"Sheehan has done an unbelievable job," Roberts told this week's Feast of Football podcast.

"All right they are not spectacular - he is not the stat-packed manager that we see in the modern era.

"He is low-risk. I think that's why the two centre-halves are playing ever so well. They will still get it from the goalkeeper, but if there's any risk, it goes. They get it wide, they get early crosses in. The goalkeeper is not afraid to put his foot through the ball.

"Sheehan reminds me very much of a Steve Cooper-type head coach. He makes sure he gets his defensive shape solid so they don't concede."

Swansea go in search of a sixth straight victory at Millwall on Saturday.

Last Monday's 2-1 success at Queens Park Rangers means the club are on their longest winning league run since 2007.

"They have got an edge to them. They look like they have got hunger, energy," Roberts added.

"The two boys in midfield, [Goncalo] Franco and Lewis O'Brien, I am not sure if I have seen a harder-working midfield duo.

"They look a different side."