{"id":764416,"date":"2026-09-08T22:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764416\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T22:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:50:12","slug":"west-ham-win-at-bolton-to-go-top-of-championship-southampton-end-swanseas-unbeaten-start-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764416\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham win at Bolton to go top of Championship; Southampton end Swansea&#8217;s unbeaten start &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Southampton more sharp and clinical&#8217;published at 22:38 BST<\/p>\n<p>22:38 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Southampton 3-1 Swansea<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ec382d8e-4b66-42cf-97ec-a1fdf0a2e74a.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Swansea City<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Swansea boss Vitor Matos\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/37acd6a0-75c8-416f-b46b-351b74d69134.jpg.webp\"  width=\"485\" height=\"272\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After watching Swansea&#8217;s unbeaten start to the season end at St Mary&#8217;s, head coach Vitor Matos said: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Southampton were better than us tonight. First half they were much better, more sharp, clinical as well, finding the players between the lines, which we knew we would be one of their main strengths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Then second half I think we were much closer to what we want to be, to what we have showed so far \u2013 aggressiveness, much more initiative, much more control, much more desire, much more willing to attack them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think that&#8217;s how we got paid with a goal for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But when you have this kind of game, you cannot give anything [away]. We need to be as competitive as we can. Unfortunately today we were not for the first half.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Southampton more sharp and clinical&#8217;published at 22:38 BST 22:38 BST FT: Southampton 3-1 Swansea Swansea City Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764416","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\/764416","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=764416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}