{"id":16985,"date":"2009-12-18T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2020-12-17T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:43:10","slug":"sousa-urges-swans-to-keep-their-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/12\/18\/sousa-urges-swans-to-keep-their-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Sousa Urges Swans To Keep Their Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City boss would love to end their pre-Christmas fixtures with a victory at Hillsborough on Saturday &#8211; a victory that would be their first on the famous ground.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Evening Post ahead of the game, Sousa said &#8220;We need to keep creating those opportunities but after that the last touch has to be better<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes our players arrive too quickly when the chance comes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The desire to score is so big that sometimes the player&#8217;s speed is too high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes, to make the right decision, we need to be more cold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have talked about that with the players and we have worked hard on it in training \u2014 we have kept on repeating the moment when the chance comes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in training the chance comes 10 times. In a match it only comes once and that&#8217;s the one we have to take \u2014 and I know we have the players to do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw one programme (last Saturday) where they had an idea about us having one player in the box, but it&#8217;s a completely wrong idea,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like him (Claridge), but he sees football differently from me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always difficult when this happens,&#8221; Sousa said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The manager had been there for a long time and I&#8217;m sure the players had a good relationship with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will find extra energy tomorrow because of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s up to us make things difficult for them and to put more pressure on them from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teams are looking to cause problems for us there and they have done it a couple of times,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have cost us points and we need to be stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City boss would love to end their pre-Christmas fixtures with a victory at Hillsborough on Saturday &#8211; a victory that would be their first on the famous ground. Speaking to the Evening Post ahead of the game, Sousa said &#8220;We need to keep creating those opportunities but after that the last touch has [&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-16985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985","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=16985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}