Fernando Llorente’s big game know-how can help propel Swansea City to a vital victory at Watford, according to head coach Paul Clement.

The Spanish World Cup winner will start his first match for a month on Saturday as the Swans seek points to begin a hoped-for climb out of the relegation zone.

Llorente knows all about expectation and the pressure to deliver goals in demanding circumstances after spells at Juventus, Seville and Athletic Bilbao.

After admitting anxiety undermined his team’s defeat at West Ham last week – where Llorente returned at half-time following injury – Clement is expecting the striker to lead the way.

“We have a whole wide range of different players that have had different experience and some have played at big clubs – Llorente is an example,” said Clement.

“Tottenham are a big club, some of our players have played for them, recently. We have young players who are new to this with very few Premier League players.

“What you hope from the experienced players is that they try to galvanise the dressing room and give their advice and experience to the younger ones and help them.

“It’s good for the team that Fernando is back because he’s been such a focal point when  we’ve needed to play into him and when the ball goes wide.

“He’s such a threat on crosses. You look back on our goals, a lot have come from the wide positions.

“We’re not a team that has electric pace in the front line. We have to play to our strengths and he is one of them.”

Llorente scored five goals in six matches to lift Swansea clear of the drop zone two months ago, but one point from five matches – in which he has started only twice – have dropped the Swans back into the bottom three.

For Clement the manner of the West Ham defeat was particularly galling but he insisted both he and his team will learn from their mistakes as they focus on the last six games of the campaign.

He added: “Clearly we’re disappointed to have come off the back of five games and only picked up one point, and West Ham was probably the worst we’ve been since I’ve been at the club, but we have to move on quickly from that.

“I thought there was an anxiety in our play and it’s difficult to say why that was the case. The mood this week was not so good in the first couple of days but spirits have really been lifted and we have belief going into this fixture.

“I’m always someone who will be very analytical about the players, the team and myself, and I think it’s a strength of a coach to be able to say where you’ve not done well enough and what you can do to improve.

“I’ve told them that I’ve made some mistakes since I’ve been here – I’m a human being – and the most important thing is to learn from those things and try to limit those mistakes moving forward.”

Clement will be forced into a reshuffle for the trip to Vicarage Road after Jack Cork suffered a recurrence of a recent ankle injury but Fernando Llorente could return to the starting line-up after starting on the bench against the Hammers.

Swansea head into the game two points from safety after the resurgence of rivals like Hull and Crystal Palace, and Clement admitted he has spent a lot of time plotting potential escape routes.

He added: “I’ve written the fixtures down for us, and all the teams in and around us in terms of our games, and I have looked a lot at our last six fixtures in terms of who we’re playing and what their form is like.

“On their day Watford are a real handful because they’ve got big, athletic, physical players. They had a hard defeat against Tottenham last week but we are expecting a big challenge, and I think every game is going to be a big challenge until the end of the season.”