The Swansea City goalkeeper finally managed to leave an away fixture with a clean sheet to his name as the Swans made it two away wins on the bounce on Saturday at Reading.<\/p>\n
After 24 clean sheets last season – a club record – you would have forgiven Dorus for wondering where the next one would come from away from home after a dismal run that was only broken with a victory at Watford three weeks ago.<\/p>\n
But Saturday’s 1-0 win at the Madejski made up for that and De vries told the Western Mail \u201cYou\u2019ll always take 1-0 \u2013 and that\u2019s two away wins in a row now<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to get that first clean sheet but the victory is far more important.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had a bit of momentum going on out there, especially in the second half, but we coped really well with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had a lot of corner kicks and free-kicks and tried to launch everything into the box. They were enthusiastic about it and got bodies in the box, but everybody competed really well with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve changed our play a little bit this season,\u201d he said, referring to Rodgers\u2019 more adventurous approach than the sterile tactics employed by the Ulsterman\u2019s predecessor Paulo Sousa.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur style away from home last year was really defensive with the wingers tracking back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe soaked up a lot of pressure by doing that and we didn\u2019t give many chances away.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this season we try to score and create more opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019ve got to be intelligent away from home and get the momentum going at the right time.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to learn with the pressure and how to soak it up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019ve done here and to get away with the victory is a great one.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there will be many clean sheets and wins to come because there is a lot of potential in this team.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the ingredients are in there to become better.\u201d<\/p>\n