{"id":15497,"date":"2008-10-04T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=15497"},"modified":"2020-10-04T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T07:24:04","slug":"swansea-3-wolves-1-roberto-delighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2008\/10\/04\/swansea-3-wolves-1-roberto-delighted\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea 3 Wolves 1 &#8211; Roberto Delighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto told the official site:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very happy with the performance<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew that beforehand both teams had a few players missing and that would stretch and test the squads, and to test your squad against the league leaders and a team like Wolverhampton it was going to be a huge challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was delighted with the way we defended and being able to soak up the pressure that Wolves put us under and continued to play our football on top.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They kept going and never died out of the game, they have a huge attacking power and we had to defend until the last second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the back of seven games in 21 days I thought we put our players in a huge demanding situation and they reacted with their normal football with clinical attacking play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall I think that was a complete performance from the first minute to the last. With the amount of chances we created and the goals that we were able to score I thought that it was a very pleasing afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a difficult decision for the linesman.&#8221; he said in reference to Gower&#8217;s disallowed goal. &#8220;Jordi Gomez was in an onside position, Mark Gower comes inside and strikes the ball and Jordi touches it and perhaps that helped it hit the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate because I thought it should have been allowed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew that Wolves were going to put us under a lot of pressure and make us defend, and we had to be ready for that,&#8221; added Roberto.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But on top I thought the players showed great personality to read the game the way they did and their performance was deserving of the three points.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto told the official site: &#8220;I was very happy with the performance &#8220;We knew that beforehand both teams had a few players missing and that would stretch and test the squads, and to test your squad against the league leaders and a team like Wolverhampton it was going to be a huge challenge. &#8220;I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}