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Swansea City 4-0 Blackburn Rovers: Vitor Matos’ men answer QPR thrashing with four-goal rout

Vitor Matos’ side were three goals ahead by half-time, with Joseph Opoku among four different scorers as Blackburn struggled to offer a response.

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The Football League Paper Team
1 November 2026

Filip Lissah celebrates scoring Swansea City’s third.

By Rob Cole

SWANSEA CITY 4
Eustaquio 11, Opoku 32, Lissah 36, Stewart 59

BLACKBURN R 0

Vitor Matos praised his Swansea City side for their emphatic reaction to last weekend’s hammering at QPR after putting four past Blackburn Rovers.
Matos told his City players they weren’t “the worst team in the world” after their 5-0 hammering before this fixture.
However, he also reminded them “they aren’t the best” either after they bounced back with an easy win over Blackburn after goals from Stephen Eustaquio, Joseph Opoku, Filip Lissah and Ross Stewart.
The reaction their Portuguese boss wanted ...

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