Planet Swans ArchivesThe stand in Swansea City captain watched on powerless as Craig Bellamy’s great strike gave Cardiff City victory in the South Wales derby but Tate has urged his side not to get too down on the result as everything is still in their hands.
Tate told BBC Sport “It doesn’t make any difference to us really
“It’s not going to affect us going up or [our] play-off push. It’s a one-off game with 16 games to go.
“That game isn’t going to get Cardiff up. We just move on to Middlesbrough and try and win that game
“You can’t get down for too long because if you do you start having a mountain to climb. We don’t want that.
“We want to keep everything in our own hands. The quicker we move on the better.
“I thought it was a draw game to be honest, but at the end of the day the best player in this league [Bellamy] has popped up with a real good goal.
“He’s done it and that’s what he gets paid for. He will probably tell you himself he wasn’t in the game much but all it takes is that one moment and that’s what these type of players do.
“He has come up with a world-class finish and hats off to him.
“We just didn’t hit the target and I don’t think either keeper had a save to make. The only time Dorus [de Vries] had something to do was pick the ball out of the net with a great finish.”
And would he like to face the Bluebirds again this season? “We are not thinking that far ahead. [But] it would be a good [play-off] final wouldn’t it?”
