{"id":18912,"date":"2012-08-27T08:14:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T08:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18912"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"laudrup-looking-at-ways-to-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2012\/08\/27\/laudrup-looking-at-ways-to-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"Laudrup Looking At Ways To Improve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Laudrup admits that he is still looking for ways his side can improve despite their 3-0 win over West Ham on Saturday which lifted them temporarily top of the Premier League<\/p>\n<p>Laudrup has had close to the perfect start as Swansea manager with two games yielding 8 goals, 2 clean sheets and 6 points with plaudits everywhere regards their style in winning the games.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans boss said: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s great for the supporters and they can enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Football, especially for the fans, is about dreams and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was great of me to be part of a game at home with a full crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The last time I experienced that was in Denmark with Brondby, most of my other clubs have been 50 or 60% full.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a factor that could get you five, six or seven points over a season and that could turn out to be very important for us.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But for us we have emotion as well but we can&rsquo;t allow ourselves to dream.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will enjoy this but on Monday we go back to work and thinking about how to beat Barnsley on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a great second game for us and the first in front of our own supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Two games, six points, eight goals and two&nbsp;<span id=\"itxthook0w0\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan\">clean<\/span>&nbsp;sheets is excellent and as a manager and former player that wasn&rsquo;t a defender it makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am very happy with the win.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Again we must analyse what we did well and where we can improve.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the first half we scored two goals from three or four chances which is great but we also gave them some opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We gave them lots of corners and set pieces and with the players we have and the players West Ham have they could cause us a lot of problems.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They had some big chances from set pieces and maybe we were a bit lucky but I thought in the second half we were in complete control.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have lots of small, fast players that can cause defenders problems.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They are so good at turning quickly and running at players and we are creating lots of chances.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But it&rsquo;s a balance because we have to make sure we are defending properly as well and I thought we did that in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The boys are full of&nbsp;<span id=\"itxthook1w0\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan\">confidence&nbsp;<\/span>at the moment and we have to take advantage of that and keep it going.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Laudrup admits that he is still looking for ways his side can improve despite their 3-0 win over West Ham on Saturday which lifted them temporarily top of the Premier League Laudrup has had close to the perfect start as Swansea manager with two games yielding 8 goals, 2 clean sheets and 6 points [&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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912","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=18912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}