{"id":17059,"date":"2010-01-19T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17059"},"modified":"2021-01-18T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:17:10","slug":"orlandi-its-not-about-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/01\/19\/orlandi-its-not-about-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlandi: It’s Not About Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swansea City midfielder will travel with his team mates to the North East on the weekend for the return fixture with Middlesbrough – just under six months after their hosts left the Liberty with a comprehensive victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

A play off spot looked a long way away that day in August as the Swans lost their second league game from two having never really been able to compete on the day with their opponents.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Swans now head to the Riverside ahead of their hosts for the day and Orlandi dismisses talk of revenge but insists that the team always look to prove that they are better than some results suggest they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about revenge,\u201d Orlandi told the Western Mail. \u201cI don\u2019t like that word and it\u2019s not the mentality we have here.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more that we want to show we didn\u2019t play as well as we can in that first game. We just want to make sure every team in this league knows how good we are and, similar to when Newcastle come to the Liberty next month, if we let ourselves down in the first game, we want to make up for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a shame we played them so early in the season<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a lot of injuries and they still had a lot of big name players like Tuncay and Robert Huth in their team.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone knew those players were going to leave and it\u2019s just unlucky that we played them before it happened. They are a very different team now, with a new manager and new players.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the same way, we always knew that we would get better when our injured players came back. So it\u2019s a shame we played them before that happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I say we knew we would turn it around, I don\u2019t think any of us believed we would be in fourth by January. We are probably overachieving now.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are good enough to stay up there though. We just have to maintain our standards, starting with Boro this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving worked so hard to get in the starting XI, any time away from it is frustrating,\u201d he said. \u201cI know there are other quality players here who will come in and do a great job so I don\u2019t want to miss any games.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I pushed so hard to be involved at Leicester. But, if I\u2019m not 100%, I have to be honest because I won\u2019t do myself justice otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully I will be back for Middlesbrough. I just have to show the gaffer in training that I am ready.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

SOURCE: <\/span>http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2010\/01\/19\/orlandi-s-swans-not-on-a-revenge-mission-91466-25629925\/?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swansea City midfielder will travel with his team mates to the North East on the weekend for the return fixture with Middlesbrough – just under six months after their hosts left the Liberty with a comprehensive victory. A play off spot looked a long way away that day in August as the Swans lost […]<\/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-17059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059","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=17059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}