Swansea head coach Vitor Matos:<\/p>\n
“We needed to control the game without the ball, getting compact, getting the right timings, the right positions, the right organisation.<\/p>\n
“We knew Middlesbrough is a really good team with the ball, with a lot of individual technique in all positions, which can hurt you.<\/p>\n
“With two games [over Easter] and all the internationals arriving last Thursday, you need first to be organised and compact and then you can put pressure and be effective.<\/p>\n
“That’s what we tried and then when we had the ball we tried to use it to create some good chances. We needed to use counter-attacks and for that some players were really important. I think overall it was a good game.”<\/p>\n
On Middlesbrough’s penalty:<\/p>\n
“From where I was standing it seems that there was not really a contact. But I still haven’t seen it properly.”<\/p>\n
Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg:<\/p>\n
“First 15, 20 [minutes] – outstanding. I think we came to a ground where everyone has struggled to play against Swansea and their way of playing.<\/p>\n
“They’re a good team on the ball. I think we were outstanding with so many players away to keep that control we are so good with – play through, play over, play round.<\/p>\n
“It’s a little bit tougher when they get their penalty, then I think we’re back to taking control of the game. There’s a new penalty, 2-1, so it’s tough to go in with 2-1 down after that first half.<\/p>\n
“We fought back in the second half, I think we did it very well. We create a lot of opportunities, show a lot of desire, character. It could be easy after that first half to put blame on people or anything or each other. They didn’t, they just fight through it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea head coach Vitor Matos: “We needed to control the game without the ball, getting compact, getting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-516415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516415","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=516415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}