Swansea City boss Luke Williams reveals Alan Sheehan role in maiden win amid 'positive' signs

Swansea got off to a winning start under Luke Williams following a 2-0 victory over Morecambe in the FA Cup

Luke Williams says he was encouraged by Swansea City's FA Cup win against Morecambe, and has credited Alan Sheehan's role in helping him bed back into life at SA1.

Goals from Charlie Patino and Jerry Yates were enough to hand the Swans victory at the Swansea.com Stadium, ensuring a winning start for Williams, who was only unveiled as the club's new boss on Friday.

"I think there were some positive things that I saw from the short amount of time I've had to work with the players," he said.

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"Then there's some things I can see they're struggling to implement - the things I was asking for. Not because anyone's not good enough. Just because when you're changing a position, which might sound like a small thing, or slightly changing the idea of where you attack or how you defend. There's a lot of things. A lot of small things that take time."Now we can look at the game back and try to show the players. More here. Less there. Or something like that. Overall, pretty good, because we keep a clean sheet and score two goals. That's nice. We created enough chances to score a few more, and the clean sheet wasn't an accident because we prevented the opposition from having a shot on target."

Williams made 11 changes for the visit of the Shrimps, a move he says was heavily influenced by assistant Sheehan, who had clearly put preparations in place for this game while still interim boss.

"I had a conversation with Alan and asked him where he was at with the preparations. He'd made a very sensible team in terms of giving minutes correctly. He gave me all the information like 'this player needs to only play a certain amount of minutes', and the medical team of course as well."Alan's been incredible. He put the team in a great place when it could have been a really, really terrible place when I arrived. But it's not. I came in and he's got everybody into a good place. He has a grasp on everything. So I'm very fortunate. He's a great guy. So a lot of the preparation was done already by Alan."

Swansea largely delivered on Williams' pledge to become a side capable of dominating possession, but perhaps didn't quite offer enough of a threat in the final third at times, particularly in the first half. However, Williams feels there were, overall, some promising early signs in this encounter. "To dominate the game that much and create a lot of chances, we put the ball into the box a lot and then it's about whether we can do that cleaner, better, more accurately. I hope so. Overall, it's the right idea," he added.

Williams also stressed that the decision to withdraw Azeem Abdulai shortly after half-time was merely precautionary. Abdulai has spent most of the season on the treatment table with a hamstring injury, and looked to have picked up a similar problem in what was his first start since August.

"He was sensible and felt something," Williams said. "He could feel it tightening, but there's a difference between tightening and a pop.

"If you think 'I wanna stay on because I want my minutes I've been so long away from the pitch' you can push it too far and get a setback. Only he knows. He made the right call and so I'm happy he got out there and got minutes."