Swansea City's focus moves back to the promotion race following their FA Cup exit at the hands of Premier League leaders Man City.
The Swans occupy third place in the Championship table ahead of their clash with Sheffield Wednesday this weekend.
They trail league leaders Brentford by four points while they are two points adrift of Norwich City, although both of those sides have played a game more than Steve Cooper's men.
And as the race for automatic promotion heats up, Norwich boss Daniel Farke has offered an insight into exactly how many points sides will need to secure a top two place this season.
Speaking ahead of his side's 2-0 loss to Swansea at the Liberty Stadium, the German boss commented: "In general, we're in a really good position in the league, we know we realistically need to win 25 more points for the safety of play-offs, and for direct promotion 35.
"It's too early to judge the end of the season, we have too many games to go.
"We have many games in position one, but we need at least 80 points to be safe in the play-offs, so we still need 25 points.
"For automatic promotion, we need 35 or to come as close to 90 points as we can.
"Two years ago, Leeds were in this position and didn't finish in automatic promotion, it was us and Sheffield United."
Farke is right to highlight that there is still a long way to go when it comes to the race for promotion.
Swansea have collected 53 of the 81 points on offer so far this season which works out at an impressive rate of 1.96 points-per-game.
Should they continue at their current rate, Swansea would end the 2020/21 campaign on 90 points. Of course, this is extremely hypothetical and there are no doubt be plenty of twists and turns ahead.
But history is looking good as far as the Swans are concerned.
Since the league was restructured in 2004, sides who take runner-up spot average a total of 87 points, three fewer than what Swansea are currently on course to achieve.
Leeds United (2019/20), Brighton (2016/17) and Burnley (2013/14) hold the joint-record for being the Championship runners-up to claim the most points (93).
At the other end of the scale, Hull City (2012/13) and Stoke City (2007/08) both finished second after ending the season with just 79 points.
As for the play-off race, Swansea have a 13-point buffer over seventh-placed Middlesbrough - who have also played a game more than the Swans.
History shows that sides finishing sixth in the Championship end the regular season with an average total of 74 points.
Cooper's men rose back into the top six in dramatic circumstances on the final day of the campaign last time out after a remarkable 4-1 win at Reading coupled with Nottingham Forest's capitulation at home to Stoke City.
Whatever happens from here on in, it looks as though one side will miss out on a top two place having claimed a significant points total this season.
Last season's champions Leeds were on 52 points after 27 games, with Brentford, Norwich and Swansea all above that total at the same stage in the current campaign.
So while there's still an incredibly long way to go, Swansea remain on course to be firmly in the mix when crunch time arrives in May.
