Carlos Carvalhal reckons he struck gold as Swansea City picked up another priceless point with a 1-1 draw at Leicester City.
The Swans came from behind with a goal from Federico Fernandez to climb out of the Premier League relegation zone for the second time in a week
The team’s resurgence continued as they made it seven matches unbeaten and Carvalhal said: “We are very happy to get a point because a point is like gold for us at the moment.
“I have said since I arrived that I will not look at the league table too much, but of course when you see that we are not under the water, we are happy.
“What’s really important, though, is that we keep on progressing. Something important today is that my boys reacted after we went behind.
“We were losing against Watford and against Arsenal and we came back to win those games.
“Today, in a difficult stadium against a difficult team, we came back to get a point.
“That shows you that the mental part of my team is very strong. The players were always focused on what they must do. They were calm and they achieved a point.
“We are happy because the history of Swansea at Leicester is very poor. We haven’t won here since 1950 and we lost the last seven, but we broke this run.
“We got a point and we need that in the position we are in.”
Leicester took the lead after 17 minutes through Jamie Vardy.
However, after Federico Fernandez headed Swansea level early in the second half, Leicester lacked guile and craft to break the visitors down.
The opening goal came out of the blue. There looked to be little danger with Harry Maguire surveying the scene with the ball at his feet on the halfway line. But when he fizzed a pass into Kelechi Iheanacho, who had found space between the lines, Swansea were in trouble.
Iheanacho had time to turn and and jink his way towards the penalty area before a loose touch saw the ball run perfectly into the path of Vardy who bent his right-foot finish around Lukasz Fabianski.
Leicester’s tails were up and they nearly extended their lead. Fousseni Diabate’s driven shot was pushed out by Fabianski and Iheanacho’s follow-up was blocked on the line by the chest of Alfie Mawson.
Some of the hosts’ approach play was a joy to watch during the first half and another neat move culminated with Wilfred Ndidi putting the ball in the net but the flag was up for offside.
Swansea’s first meaningful effort on goal ended up in the back of Leicester’s net as the unmarked Fernandez headed in Ki Sung-yueng’s corner from seven yards out.
Leicester had been on the back foot since the break but went close to restoring their lead just after the hour mark. Vardy raced clear down the right and his cut-back was steered narrowly wide by Diabate.
Substitute Demarai Gray guided a volley over the crossbar from 10 yards out and Maguire sent a header into the side-netting but Swansea were largely comfortable in holding in to the point.
