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"We know it's going to be difficult but we want to win every game at home," Rodgers said as he looked forward to his second home league game in charge. "For teams coming to the Liberty we want to make it as difficult as possible, that proved to be the case in the first game [against Preston] and we want to continue to do that.
"There's no doubt that we're going to be playing against one of the teams right up there over the course of the season, but it will be about us to make it as difficult as we possibly can.
"I have great confidence that we can do that, and if we win on Saturday it will be a terrific start, four wins from six, which will give us confidence going into our next games."
Brian Laws knows that a good result at Swansea, added to the results so far, means a good start to the season and he said: "Any team that wants to be successful has to have a good start. The last thing you want is to go into the season chasing.
"Because we got relegated and because I was new into the club, it was important to start well this season and get a feel good factor going. We have done that, but we haven't achieved anything yet though, other than a solid start."
Laws continued: "Looking at the first block of games, people were saying it was as tough a start as we could have asked for, so it's a good measure of the players' attitude that we have started well and it would be nice to finish off for the international break with another good result behind us.
"It's positive and you can work on the strategy for the next month when we have seven games in 21 days that will test our squad to the maximum."
On Swansea he admitted: "I would say this is going to be our toughest game. As each game goes by, we all say the same things, but Swansea were always going to be a tough side to crack.
"Looking at last season, their home form was fantastic, very rarely do they concede lots of goals and the only achilles heel I could see was the fact they didn't score enough goals.
"This year, I don't think there will be any change in the way they play. The new manager has gone in and they have shown they will be tough.
"It will be a good game of football and we have to measure ourselves against another good side."