Everything Michael Duff said after beating Millwall 3-0 away
Michael Duff has secured back to back wins for Swansea City after a very poor start in the Championship this season. Goals from Matt Grimes, Mykola and a Jamal Lowe penalty secured all three points, the first win away from home this season.
The Jack Army were delighted to see two of the goals scored in front of them from the away stand. Mykola Kuharevich bagged his first goal for the Swans with a guided header to complete the rout in south London. They weren’t the only ones delighted, so was Michael Duff.
"It’s a difficult place to come, and I think we showed all aspects of the game today. In the lead up to the penalty, there were more than forty passes and in the lead up to the second goal there were more than twenty five passes. Millwall came out in the second half and put us under pressure, and we had to change shape a couple of times, but then we came back out of it.
"There were lots of positives to take.
"It’s very rare that you will dominate a game for 90 minutes. We want to play football, but it has to be built on a foundation. We want to get to a point where we’re dominating the ball all the time, but in the Championship there will always be points we come under pressure and that’s when we need the togetherness, team spirit and shape to come through. For the last ten minutes, it was really comfortable, because we’d given ourselves the platform. We’re miles away from where we want to end up, but with a lot of change at a football club it takes time to settle, but it was nice to watch the last ten minutes relaxed because of the defending we’d shown. We could just watch the players play good football.”
The full interview is below.
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