Swansea City : The reality from that Derby performance
Monday, 16th Feb 2026 15:51 by Liam Walters

Vitor Matos reacts to his sides performance and highlights from Saturdays game at Derby County. Plus some reaction to a game that has to be the most frustrating since Matos arrived at Swansea. Yes, we should expect these type of fixtures but the attitude towards this game was poor by the players when it came to turning their possession into points.

There has been plenty of comment on the Swans over their performance last time out, it was an easily achievable draw and the possession stats are startling overall. These stats have been show a positive of course and a confident ability to pass the ball. However, many of those passes were counter productive and backwards rebuilding instead of moving forwards. It can be seen as well that when a clear opportunity to pass forwards was evident the Swans just were not able or brave enough to take it. There has been whole pattern of the game in the main was like this.

This explains the high possession stats, the insistence to rebuild when there were...