Planet Swans Archives“Newcastle are a very strong team,”
“And while there were some good results for us last weekend, I think the bad one for us was Newcastle losing at home.
“The one thing you can say is that like Southampton last weekend, we know what we can expect after that.
“They have very strong, physical players like Ba and Cisse, then there are others like Ben Arfa and Jonas.
“I think it will be quite a physical game against them and we have to be prepared for that.”
“For me, every time we get a point away from home in the Premier League it’s a point gained,”
“Of course there are different circumstances — you could be winning and the other team scores an equaliser in the last second — but overall I think that when a team like us get a point away from home, it’s always a point gained.”
“Maybe against Southampton it was the first time this season that we got a little more than we deserved,”
“But saying that, I still think we played okay.
“After 45 minutes I was in the dressing room feeling we were dominating and that we just lacked that little bit in the last third of the pitch.
“I don’t think we have to exaggerate and say it was a very poor game.
“I think that when we play away against a team who are so in need of a win, we can come under pressure. That can happen.
“In the second half they put some pressure on, but I have watched the game again and it’s not as if they had five or six chances and we were very lucky. We didn’t create many chances ourselves, but we got a 1-1 draw.
“There have been other games where we have played better but not got the result. That happens.”
“Every away game is difficult,” the Dane says.
“Some are more difficult than others, but we have played the champions and we have played one of the bottom teams in the last few weeks.
“Of course the big teams have some extraordinary players, but the difficulties were the same in both those games. You are playing against different kinds of players, but it’s always difficult to get a result.”
“Southampton kept the momentum going for us,we had it with the late equaliser against Chelsea, and we got another draw last Saturday.
“If you play four games, you lose one of them and get three draws, you get three points.
“If you lose three of those games and win one, you also get three points.
“But for me there’s a big difference. I know the points are the same, but the circumstances are different.
“It’s different psychologically for the team if you lose one out of four or you lose three out of the four. “Of course we want to win games, but draws can be good.
