The Swansea City manager will lead his side into the FA Cup this weekend with a tie against Histon – already giant killers this season having despatched both Swindon Town and Leeds United.<\/p>\n
And ever the prepared man, Roberto has done his homework on the non league side and believes that the lack of live TV coverage for the game means that the TV companies believe that there is little chance of an upset.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Western Mail, Roberto said \u201cWe know that we can\u2019t really be ourselves in these type of games<\/p>\n
\u201cLast season, that\u2019s what we tried to do, play our own style.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to realise that sometimes you need to find a way to win football games, rather than rely on the performance and try and be pretty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are certain moments when you need to make sure that you do the \u2018ugly\u2019 things in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the way we are as a football team, that is hard to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll be completely different to any game this season<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019ve watched them two or three times and had plenty of reports, and we\u2019re preparing the same way as we would for any match. We need to make sure we know what we\u2019re going to face, know how we can impose ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to be strong, dominate the game and we\u2019re aware of their dangers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a massive date in the football calendar \u2013 and it\u2019s the first time in a long while that we\u2019ve had a bye into the third round.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreviously, we had to work very hard through the earlier rounds to get this far, so we can\u2019t take it lightly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprised, I must admit, when it wasn\u2019t selected for live coverage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a way, I\u2019m delighted because when the cameras are there, they are looking for the headlines, for the non-league side to create a shock.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe they don\u2019t think there\u2019s much chance of that happening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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