{"id":16988,"date":"2009-12-21T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16988"},"modified":"2020-12-20T20:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:17:57","slug":"pratley-dismisses-play-off-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/12\/21\/pratley-dismisses-play-off-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratley Dismisses Play Off Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pratley scored twice on Saturday to give the Swans their first ever win at Hillsborough and send them into the festive season in 5th place with many dreaming of a Premier League place for next season<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Evening Post after the game, Pratley said &#8220;We haven&#8217;t scored that many goals<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t conceded many either, but we know we need to take our chances better than we have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to be more clinical, because if we do that we will win more games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to get a couple of goals, but winning is the most important thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t really bother me too much who scores. It&#8217;s only when you lads start saying in the papers that midfielders have got to score more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At times we gave the ball away too easily,&#8221; Pratley conceded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially after we went 1-0 up, they had us under pressure \u2014 but you are going to get that when you come to a place like Sheffield Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The boys have to take some credit for dealing with that. We were missing a few players \u2014 Leon Britton wasn&#8217;t in the squad \u2014 and for me he is one of our best players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That just shows you that anyone can come in and do well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pratley scored twice on Saturday to give the Swans their first ever win at Hillsborough and send them into the festive season in 5th place with many dreaming of a Premier League place for next season Speaking to the Evening Post after the game, Pratley said &#8220;We haven&#8217;t scored that many goals &#8220;We haven&#8217;t conceded [&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-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","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=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}