Matos bemoans penalty decision - but salutes his team

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Vitor Matos bemoaned the penalty decision which denied Swansea City victory at Norwich City as he paid tribute to the shift put in by his players at Carrow Road.

Swansea were short of their best as they played a second away game in four days against one of the Championship's form sides.

But having gone it level at half-time, Swansea edged in front through Zan Vipotnik's penalty.

They were on course for a battling away victory until Norwich, who had seen one appeal for a spot-kick turned down when Cameron Burgess challenged Mohamed Toure, were awarded a contentious penalty seven minutes from time.

This time Burgess headed Ali Ahmed's cross clear – but Lawrence Vigouroux was penalised for colliding with Mathias Kvistgaarden after he came off his line in an attempt to deal with the ball into his box.

"What can I say? I cannot control the decision. In my opinion, of course it's not a penalty, but it is what it is," said Swansea head coach Matos.

"It's body-to-body contact, a player going in one direction and a player going in the other. Then Cam clears the ball, so what can I say?

"It's not my job to decide that. So it's more about focus on the performance and that's what we will do."