{"id":159625,"date":"2025-11-25T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159625\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:14:08","slug":"swansea-city-1-2-derby-county-rams-hold-on-as-vitor-matos-era-starts-with-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159625\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City 1-2 Derby County: Rams hold on as Vitor Matos era starts with defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea head coach Vitor Matos:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The result was not good, that&#8217;s clear. In the game there were good moments that we can build from and I think that&#8217;s the most important thing, that now we have a starting point to build from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to improve a lot of things, [that is] clear. But I think the way we need to finish our attacks, the way we have the ball possession we have but we don&#8217;t create the chances, that&#8217;s what we need to improve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Also the counter-press needs to much more aggressive. There are things we need to improve straight away, it&#8217;s clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A few things were good, but we need to find much more consistency and keep going, that&#8217;s the plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derby head coach John Eustace:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Great three points. It was always going to be a very difficult night with the new manager coming in here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We took a while to adapt losing Carlton. We changed the frontline a little tiny bit, so it took a while for them to get going, but we scored a fantastic goal in an area where we felt we could really hurt them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Second half I felt really in control. We touched on a couple of things from the defensive point of view and I thought we controlled the majority of the second half and scored a great goal on transition.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Carlton Morris&#8217; injury:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Carlton&#8217;s had one scan, he&#8217;s got a couple more to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You know, it&#8217;s not as bad as what we think, hopefully it&#8217;s not a season-ending injury. So hopefully he&#8217;ll be back in the next couple of months.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea head coach Vitor Matos: &#8220;The result was not good, that&#8217;s clear. In the game there were good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-159625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}