Oli McBurnie is set to return for Swansea City at home to Sheffield United this weekend after recovering from the illness that forced him to miss their last two games. The Swans striker sat out the FA Cup victory at Aston Villa as well as the draw at Preston, but manager Graham Potter believes his leading scorer is sharp enough again to face the Blades. “With Oli it is one of those things where he was ill last week, a bit low, and then he has picked something else up,” said Potter.

Graham Potter has suggested Swansea City are simply not good enough to entertain thoughts of a promotion back to the Premier League this season. The Swans manager saw his team held to a 1-1 draw at lowly Preston to leave them six points adrift on the Championship play-offs. Back in the lower half of the table, and with little sign that any significant new players are going to be recruited in this transfer window, it appears Potter has settled for consolidation.

Swansea City Ladies star Jess Williams is close to fitness after recovering from a serious knee injury. The Wales U19 defender has not played this season after fracturing her right knee joint last summer. It has been a long road back, but Williams is now within weeks of a return to action and said: “To step up my rehab feels great, as being injured is never easy and every day I’m one step closer to being back on the pitch.

Mike Flynn is relishing a Newport old boys’ reunion in the FA Cup after his County giant-killers drew a fourth round trip to Tony Pulis’s Middlesbrough. Flynn – whose team knocked Leicester City out of the competition on Sunday – was hoping for another home tie or a second crack at a Premier League club. In the end, he drew neither. But a trip to one of the biggest clubs in the Championship and a chance to lock horns with one of his managerial heroes still has a certain romance.

Oli McBurnie insists he always knew his goal touch would return despite his recent dry spell. The Swansea City striker scored twice in his team’s 4-1 thrashing of Reading at the Madejski Stadium on New Year’s Day as the Swans won for the first time in four matches. The goals were McBurnie’s first since November and helped lift the club to 12th in the Championship table – seven points adrift of the play-off spots.

Graham Potter is loving joining the ‘lunatics’ and getting involved in the hurly burly of the Christmas fixture bonanza. The Swansea City boss has for the past few years been able to put his feet up with the family at this time of year as the Swedish league had already finished.

Graham Potter admitted Swansea City have to sharpen up their act in both boxes after being left to rue a nightmare final 20 minutes at Hull. Wilfried Bony had marked his first start of the season with his first goal for 11 months to give the Swans the perfect start after just three minutes.

Swansea City have been linked with a move for Middlesbrough’s Danish international striker Martin Braithwaite, although Graham Potter has downplayed suggestions there will be much trade coming into the Liberty Stadium next month. Braithwaite – who played for the Danes in their 2-1 victory over Wales last month – has not scored for Boro since August and has been in and out of the team this season under manager Tony Pulis. The former Toulouse forward went out on loan to Bordeaux last season, but cost Boro a hefty £9m 18 months ago and any move to the Swans is likely to be a loan also.

Bersant Celina typifies the resilience of Swansea City’s comeback kids, according to their manager Graham Potter. Celina was left out of the starting line-up to face Sheffield Wednesday but came off the bench to score one goal and then create the winner in Saturday’s 2-1 win. The victory has lifted the Swans to ninth place in the Championship table – just four points off the play-off places. After three successive defeats, Potter’s side have shown their resourcefulness by winning back-to-back matches to re-ignite hopes they can climb back into top six contention over the festive period.

Leror Fer has urged Swansea City to send a three-points get well message to Martin Olsson by beating Sheffield Wednesday at the Liberty Stadium. Sweden defender Olsson has been ruled out for the rest of the season after rupturing his Achilles tendon at Brentford last week. It is an injury that Fer is all too familiar with after suffering the same setback earlier this year, which resulted in six months on the sidelines.

Martin Olsson will not play against this season handing Swansea City a huge blow. The left-back has undergone surgery on the left achilles tendon he ruptured at Brentford last weekend.

Graham Potter has conceded Swansea City may pay a heavy price for their impressive 3-2 victory at Brentford through an injury to Martin Olsson. The Sweden World Cup full-back was carried off on stretcher with an Achilles tendon problem early on during the first-half of his team’s victory at Griffin Park. Olsson is due to have a scan to assess the severity of the injury, but the likelihood appears to be he will be sidelined for some time with Potter admitting: “It does not look good, to be honest.