{"id":18542,"date":"2011-11-01T06:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T06:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18542"},"modified":"2020-11-01T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T08:27:04","slug":"britton-it-would-send-a-message-if-we-were-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/11\/01\/britton-it-would-send-a-message-if-we-were-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Britton &#8211; It Would Send A Message If We Were To Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Britton knows that a victory at Anfield on Saturday would send a hell of a message to the rest of the league<\/p>\n<p>The Swans head off to one of football&#8217;s traditional fortresses on the weekend looking for their first Premier League win on the road and continue what so far has been a very promising season.<\/p>\n<p>Ten games in and the Swans stand proudly in 10th place in the Premier League with only four defeats &#8211; three of which have come at the home of this season&#8217;s Champions League players.<\/p>\n<p>Only Norwich have beaten the Swans outside of that elite and this weekend the Swans get the chance to pit their wits against a Champions League hopeful and the second most successful club in English football history.<\/p>\n<p>Britton said: \u201cIt would be great if we could win against a big club like Liverpool at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would send a massive message out to the rest of the league and move us three points further away from the teams at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Wolves we were 10 minutes from picking up three points after a very good performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t to be but the next step now is to get that win on the road because our home form has been very good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will go there and play our football the way we do and hopefully come away with something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next thing for us is to try and get three points against one of the big teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve played Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and it\u2019s tough when you go to these places because they are always very strong at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA draw at Anfield, if you offered it before the game, most teams would take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will go to look to win but if we come away with a draw it\u2019s a positive result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big team like Liverpool at home will concentrate on what they do and not worry about us so much, we do the same at the Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think if we play how we know we can more often that not we will come away with a result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure Liverpool will do the same and it might give us an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Britton knows that a victory at Anfield on Saturday would send a hell of a message to the rest of the league The Swans head off to one of football&#8217;s traditional fortresses on the weekend looking for their first Premier League win on the road and continue what so far has been a very [&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-18542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542","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=18542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}