{"id":17761,"date":"2010-11-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17761"},"modified":"2020-11-27T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T07:59:17","slug":"cotterill-we-restricted-swansea-to-very-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/11\/27\/cotterill-we-restricted-swansea-to-very-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotterill &#8211; We Restricted Swansea To Very Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cotterill must have feared the worst when Craig Beattie fired home inside two minutes but his side bounced back and goals from David Nugent and Greg Halford gave the away side the victory they craved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cA big thanks to the fans for travelling so far to watch us in such bad weather,\u201d Cotterill told the Pompey official website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go a goal down at Swansea you can end up getting beaten by four or five. But we didn\u2019t do that, we wore them down and won the game by being disciplined against a team who get a lot of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did a lot of work on Swansea, perhaps more than we\u2019ve had to do on any other team.\u00a0 We were playing a team who could have gone joint-second in the table and who had conceded just two goals at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t help in the first two minutes when we went behind, but the flip side of that was that we showed such character to come back and win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got our equaliser at the right time, just before half-time, and in the second half created several good chances and scored the second goal that gave us a big lift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to the lads at half-time that we could win the game. The lads were brilliant. Towards the end we had seen off their threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn truth, after the first couple of minutes, there wasn\u2019t a lot wrong with us. We restricted Swansea to very little on their patch.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere were a few things we thought we might be able to do, and Nuge\u2019s goal worked perfectly for us. It was a good finish by Nuge, who is nice and confident at the moment, scoring goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought Dave Kitson was excellent tonight, especially in the first half. He worked really, really hard and the goals will come for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a good mood in the dressing room. We were disappointed with our performance at Barnsley, but we felt we deserved to win against Doncaster and QPR. We deserved to win against Swansea too, but this time we got the three points.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cotterill must have feared the worst when Craig Beattie fired home inside two minutes but his side bounced back and goals from David Nugent and Greg Halford gave the away side the victory they craved. \u201cA big thanks to the fans for travelling so far to watch us in such bad weather,\u201d Cotterill told the [&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-17761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761","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=17761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}