Matos calls on Swansea to learn from 5-0 QPR thrashing as Yeo joins injury list
Richard Kone's 15-minute hat-trick and two Jimmy Dunne set-piece goals gave QPR a 5-0 win over Swansea, whose boss Vitor Matos admitted his side lacked concentration and confirmed winger Moussa Yeo will miss two to three weeks with a hamstring problem.
Swansea City suffered the heaviest defeat of Vitor Matos' tenure as Queens Park Rangers won 5-0 at Loftus Road, with Richard Kone scoring a hat-trick inside the first 15 minutes and centre-back Jimmy Dunne adding two goals from set pieces. The result was Swansea's worst league outcome since a 5-0 loss at Southampton in December 2023, surpassing the 3-0 defeats to Coventry and Ipswich that had been Matos' previous heaviest losses in charge.
The scale of the defeat was striking given the form of the two sides. Swansea had lost only two of their 11 league games this season before the trip to west London, while Rangers had won just one of their previous seven matches. Despite the setback, Swansea remain in the Championship's automatic promotion places.
Matos took responsibility for the result but said the performance must serve as a lesson. He noted that Rangers began with plenty of energy while his team lacked concentration and organisation in moments, and he praised the hosts' clinical finishing for denying Swansea confidence. The Swansea head coach stressed that the team must return to its standards and bounce back, while acknowledging the side had not been perfect even during its winning run.
Swansea's problems were compounded by another injury blow. Winger Moussa Yeo, who had been in form, missed the QPR game after suffering a hamstring problem in the previous weekend's defeat by West Ham United and is expected to be out for between two and three weeks. Matos said losing Yeo is not ideal but expressed confidence that a strong squad can cover his absence.
Yeo's setback follows the news that fellow wideman Ronald has been ruled out for up to eight weeks with a hamstring injury. Winger Jeremy Monga, on loan from Manchester City, was included in a Swansea matchday squad for the first time on Saturday but did not come on.
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