{"id":60020,"date":"2026-09-03T16:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swansea-city-on-the-way-to-reviving-possession-style-says-vitor-matos\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:56:38","slug":"swansea-city-on-the-way-to-reviving-possession-style-says-vitor-matos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swansea-city-on-the-way-to-reviving-possession-style-says-vitor-matos\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City on the way to reviving possession style, says Vitor Matos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They eventually lost their way in the top flight, with a change in style contributing to a decline which ended in relegation to the Championship in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, Swansea have tasked various head coaches with returning the club to the top division while reviving the sort of style which became their trademark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While it is too early in the season to assess promotion prospects, Matos believes his team are heading in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have something special growing, we have something that everyone feels proud of,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now it&#8217;s up to us to take care of that because football is quite unpredictable and we need to understand the whys more than focus on the good things we have done now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gv25z0353o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They eventually lost their way in the top flight, with a change in style contributing to a decline which ended in relegation to the Championship in 2018. Since then, Swansea have tasked various head coaches with returning the club to the top division while reviving the sort of style which became their trademark. While it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[297,16507,16583,16582,3292,4518,16506],"class_list":["post-60020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-city","tag-matos","tag-possession","tag-reviving","tag-style","tag-swansea","tag-vitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60020","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=60020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60022,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60020\/revisions\/60022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}