Dorus De Vries is ensuring that nobody is under estimating Norwich ahead of the Swans clash this afternoon

The Swansea City goalkeeper - who kept his first league clean sheet last weekend was speaking ahead of the trip to Carrow Road knowing that the newly promoted Canaries should not be under estimated.

And he is using the Swans own experience as the basis for that viewpoint knowing that teams under estimated the Swans when they came up as Champions and he urged his team mates not to make the same mistakes.

“Norwich are a team you can’t underestimate." De Vries told the Western Mail

“I can remember our first season in the Championship well. Nobody really knows what you are like as a team and they didn’t pay us any attention.

“When we were in League One people were saying we played nice football, but questioned if could we win games with the same style in the Championship.

“We showed we could. We won League One comfortably, we had the best team in the division and we deserved to be champions.

“And we did it by playing good football.

“When we went up to the next division instead of finding it really hard, it was more suited to our style of football.

Norwich are a big club and they will want to make a name for themselves, again like we did.

“They dropped out of the Championship but went straight back up again, they did really well last season in League One.

“Norwich lost their opening game, but they showed some good commitment to come back last week.

“I’m sure they will be full of confidence and looking forward to the challenge of establishing themselves back in the Championship.

“It will be a tough game. Norwich are a massive club.

“I remember going there as a manager with Watford and it’s a terrific place to go and play football.

“Paul did an excellent job there last season, getting them out of the division at the first attempt.

“They play a system which can hurt you if you don’t do your homework. I’ve played and had success with it in the past.

Clubs like Norwich and Leeds United have great financial backing and that is something to rest of the division has got to deal with,” said 29-year-old de Vries.

“The Championship has got stronger, the teams who have gone down and come up are all big clubs, with great histories.

“They’ve got facilities and great support, things top players are attracted to went they look at a club. It gives them a great base to get good players.

“Nobody should under-estimate anyone in this league. Last season Sheffield Wednesday went down and we were in and around the play-off positions, I don’t many people would have predicted it.

“I’m looking forward to getting up there and playing for the first time because it’s a great stadium and will be a full house.

“We want to keep our season going, we had a win in the Carling Cup and then an excellent result last weekend against Preston so we are full of confidence.

“We want to build on that success. It’s all to do with confidence and belief and we’ve got the quality to do that.

“It was a great effort last Saturday and we want to show the same mentality again.

“The guys wanted to prove that we can score goals as a team.

“A lot of teams in this division don’t like to try and play the sort of football we do.

“But more and more teams are trying to play football from the back, keep good possession and make lots of passes.

“It’s good to see teams playing the way we do, I’d like to think it means we have made an impact in this league and we do get some credit for it.

“We had a belief that we had players in the squad who could easily adapt to this level.

“The Championship is a good standard and you need a lot of quality, especially the way we play because it takes lot of focus and discipline.

“Teams like us, Doncaster, Leicester, have come up and made their mark so Norwich will feel they can do the same.”

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