{"id":451093,"date":"2026-02-28T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451093\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:52:11","slug":"ipswich-town-3-0-swansea-city-vitor-matos-says-blues-better-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451093\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town 3-0 Swansea City: Vitor Matos says Blues &#8216;better team&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Goals from Anis Mehmeti (3), Ivan Azon (41) and George Hirst (74) saw the Blues cruise to victory back on Suffolk soil.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked for his assessment, Matos said: &#8220;It&#8217;s easy, Ipswich were better and deserved the win &#8211; that&#8217;s the assessment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Ipswich scored early. After that we needed to chase the result. Ipswich started with good intensity and we could not match that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I think we were better second half, more organised. We had better timings, were better with the ball, but didn&#8217;t find a way. After that, they get the third goal. And I think that&#8217;s the story of the game.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He continued: &#8220;Ipswich is a really good team, have a brilliant squad, are really well organised. We knew that to compete against them you need to be 100%. Small things and small details make the difference in these kind of games.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Ipswich scoring really early changed the way we needed to chase back. When you chase back these kind of games from the start you always imbalance yourself a little bit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was a hard game for us, but we need to find a way to be much more competitive and that&#8217;s the truth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;m still not that long at the job. We will keep trying to improve and we need to improve. It takes time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The most important thing is to build the foundations, build the right mentality and build the right values.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goals from Anis Mehmeti (3), Ivan Azon (41) and George Hirst (74) saw the Blues cruise to victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}