{"id":59681,"date":"2026-08-29T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/vitor-matos-insists-swansea-city-can-still-improve-after-unbeaten-championship-start\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:51:01","slug":"vitor-matos-insists-swansea-city-can-still-improve-after-unbeaten-championship-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/vitor-matos-insists-swansea-city-can-still-improve-after-unbeaten-championship-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitor Matos insists Swansea City can still improve after unbeaten Championship start"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

Swansea head coach Vitor Matos is “really pleased” with their unbeaten start to the Championship season, but insisted they still have small improvements to make.<\/b><\/p>\n

Goals from Joseph Opoku, Eom Ji-sung and Ronald gave Swansea a 3-0 win at Derby<\/a>, taking Matos’ charges to seven points from three games – their best start to a season since 2020-21.<\/p>\n

The Swans won just seven of their 23 away Championship fixtures last season, but have taken six points from six at the start of this campaign.<\/p>\n

Matos, into his second campaign in charge of Swansea, is pleased with their improved record on the road, and feels his players are enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n

“There is still a lot to play [this season], but we are really pleased that we did a good job for our fans who were here,” said Matos.<\/p>\n

“It was one game, and we have a difficult run of games now coming. It was a really nice performance; now we have to build on that for the next one.<\/p>\n

“I think we started the game really well. We scored early, and it gave us the tranquillity to stay in the game and be competitive.<\/p>\n

“Then we had moments where Derby pushed us back, and we needed to stay compact and concentrated in the box.<\/p>\n

“We coped with that, scored the second, and that gave us the comfort to control the game how we like to do it.<\/p>\n

“We were a little bit anxious to score the third goal and kill the game, but I’m really pleased. We showed maturity again.<\/p>\n

“The team is growing, we have new players fitting in, and we have a group of players that is starting to enjoy playing together.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swansea head coach Vitor Matos is “really pleased” with their unbeaten start to the Championship season, but insisted they still have small improvements to make. Goals from Joseph Opoku, Eom Ji-sung and Ronald gave Swansea a 3-0 win at Derby, taking Matos’ charges to seven points from three games – their best start to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[5233,297,3369,4352,16507,1486,4518,13765,16506],"class_list":["post-59681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-championship","tag-city","tag-improve","tag-insists","tag-matos","tag-start","tag-swansea","tag-unbeaten","tag-vitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59683,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59681\/revisions\/59683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}