S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea City 1 Portsmouth 0 | Att: 18,163 | 09/12/25 | The EFL Championship | The Swansea.com Stadium

[jackharris]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1998535137861267758

 

[jackharris]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1998522027771048037

 

[Michu78]

The only thing that matters at this stage is points on the board.

 

[jackharris]

https://fb.watch/DV2lgO3G6w

 

[Swansea93]

It’s pretty obvious to me that some contributors to this forum are the type who’ve got Swansea City wallpaper, bedding, curtains, PJ’s, slippers the lot.

They simply fail to have any balance in their posts, I’ll be delighted if we pick up another thirty points irrespective of how we play but please don’t try and tell me that there are
signs of improvement in how we’re playing.

Well we have just won 2 games on the bounce with 2 clean sheets and we scored from a set piece, improvement there straight away Copa.

 

[cadleigh]

You cant be watching very well the signs are there some passages of nice triangles, more effort to get players into the box and the nimbers you quotd show improvement Xg up by.05,total big chances doubled from 3 to 6....I wonder are you relates to Sheehan?
Nice guy but should never had the full time gig
Watch the inside Swans videos of Sheehan and Matos ,Their approaches in the dressing room are chalk and cheese.

Its still early days ffor Matos,he was unlucky with his first 2 games but we have just secured our first back to back wins this season and we no longer look like we are going to concede a last minute goal.
To me we look a better watch than earlier this season and we appear to be developing a pattern of play.
But then we all have our own opinions

Plus we are shooting from range now, which we hardly ever did under Sheehan. So the 'touches in the box' stat isn't going to reflect the reality of how much we are improving as an attacking threat. Just got to work on keeping the ball down a bit...

 

[J_B]

It's a new manager of course we're gonna see an increase in effort that should be a given. I'm talking about style of play I've not seen an improvement in any aspect of our game.

You mention underlying numbers, but even that really is grim reading as well. Yes I know it is such a small sample size, so nothing definitive can be taken from it.

But still had a look just to see if the numbers were as bad as what my eyes were seeing.

Touches in box/90 under Matos (first 4 games) = 16.5.
Touches in box/90 under Sheehan (last 4 games = 17.25.

Total Sot Under Matos = 16
Total Sot Under Sheehan = 14

Xg/90 Under Matos = 0.65
Xg/90 Under Sheehan= 0.6

Total Big chances Under Matos = 6
Total Big chances Under Sheehan = 3

Sheehan last 4 games average league position = 13th

Matos first 4 games average league position = 19th.

All your stats are about our performance with the ball. You have nothing to say about the biggest improvement in the team under Matos. He’s clearly taking a leaf out of Klopp’s gegenpress albeit with vastly inferior players. I don’t need stats to tell me that we’re much, much better without the ball, I can see it, particularly the last two home games.

Another stat:
Sheehan’s last four games 10 goals conceded.
Matos first four games 5 goals conceded.