Paul Clement shelves speculation over his Swansea future

Paul Clement is targeting a much-needed win over Crystal Palace at the weekend to kickstart their survival battle.

A 3-1 defeat at Everton left his side rooted to the bottom of the Premier League with just 12 points from 18 matches - exactly the same record which saw Bob Bradley sacked to pave the way for the former Real Madrid and Bayern Munich assistant manager to come in.

He successfully guided them to the safety of 15th place and believes the current state of affairs is not yet as bad as the one he inherited.

"We have an opportunity to get to 15 at the halfway point, which would be a better situation. That is what I have to focus on," he said.

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However, his task has been made difficult by injury to striker Wilfried Bony - up until last night the only player to have scored since the end of October.

The Ivory Coast international came off less than four minutes into the game to leave his manager frustrated.

"I don't even know what action he had done to create that injury. He has injured his hamstring, the physio has confirmed that," Clement said. "How serious we are not sure yet. A hamstring is a minimum seven to 10 days."