Stoke manager Mark Robins:
“It was important because the five [defeats] out of six games everybody keeps reminding us about. We have not won since Charlton here and we have had three tough away games we’ve lost and the Hull game here which was a reverse we shouldn’t have suffered.
“We made hard work of it because I thought we were the better team from start to finish and we sometimes contrive to give ourselves problems in areas we don’t need to.
“But on the back of the week we have had… it’s really hard for players, hence the six changes. I wanted energy from everybody and we wouldn’t have got that with more of the players that played the other night.
“I have got to say I’m delighted with the three points because it was much needed.”
Swansea head coach Vitor Matos:
“I think it was a good game that we should have grabbed from the start. We were a little bit passive in the way we approached it.
“In this kind of game, when we come here to Stoke, we need to grab it from the beginning.
“We grew into the game, then Stoke scored. Then the second goal on the moment we were making changes.
“But we showed character and willing to grab something from today. We created chances. When you create chances you need to score, because we know how hard it is to score here.”
