Brendan Rodgers told his side at half time on Saturday that they were not to be heroic losers<\/p>\n
The Swans went into that interval a goal down despite appearing to be the better side in the first 45 minutes against Spurs.<\/p>\n
And Rodgers team talk concentrated on keeping the pressure up and ensuring that they did not earn their tag of heroic losers – a tag they were given by some after narrow defeats earlier in the season to both Arsenal and Manchester United.<\/p>\n
Rodgers said\u00a0“It’s as good a performance as we have had, particularly against a real top side<\/p>\n
“If you look at it as a whole, with Spurs arriving here in the form they’re in and with the quality they have, it was a terrific performance and I’m very proud of the players.<\/p>\n
“I said to them at half-time that I didn’t want us to be the heroic losers. We’d played so well in the first half but gone in 1-0 down, and people could have ended up talking about our tippy-tappy football after we’d lost the game.<\/p>\n
“We could have felt sorry for ourselves after going behind. Maybe a lot of teams after playing so well for 45 minutes only to finish up losing 1-0 would have been overrun by Tottenham and ended up losing 3-0 or 4-0.<\/p>\n
“But we showed our resolve and our resistance as well as our quality, and I thought a point was the least we deserved against a top, top side.<\/p>\n
“That will give us confidence going into the second half of the season.<\/p>\n
“I think the performance against a top side like Spurs gives us the confidence to think that we can stay in this league,” Rodgers said.<\/p>\n
“Our objective all along has been to stay at this level. It’s a brilliant league.<\/p>\n
“That was such a great game for us, for the supporters, for you journalists \u2014 to see us, the minnows, competing against world-class players.<\/p>\n
“To perform as we did, to be the better side, just shows how this club has grown.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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