{"id":488214,"date":"2026-03-21T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488214\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:09","slug":"swansea-city-0-3-coventry-city-matt-grimes-scores-against-old-club-as-sky-blues-go-nine-points-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488214\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City 0-3 Coventry City: Matt Grimes scores against old club as Sky Blues go nine points clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea head coach Vitor Matos:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had chances, we didn&#8217;t score. That shows that in this kind of game, being clinical is massive, having the mental focus in that kind of situation is massive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s something we need to improve. For 30 minutes I think we were a good team who properly pushed Coventry in moments they didn&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cross bar, post, good chance for Franco as well, then a penalty changed the momentum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We needed to chase them back and doing that against a good team like Coventry is not easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coventry head coach Frank Lampard:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Swansea have been in fine form at home for quite long period of time. I watched a lot of them this week and the more you watch them, the more you don&#8217;t want to play them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re high pressing, they&#8217;re one of the highest in the league, they make it difficult to play, they can move and rotate and play well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They had their couple of moments, so did we. It was a typical trading game of a team that has played really well at home and us coming away and we&#8217;re you know we&#8217;re a good team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But then we took the reins &#8211; obviously goals affect the game hugely. We&#8217;re very clinical in a 12-minute spell and then the second half is just how to see out a game with a counter-attack threat, so I am very happy with the players.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea head coach Vitor Matos: &#8220;We had chances, we didn&#8217;t score. That shows that in this kind of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-488214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488214","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=488214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}