{"id":18994,"date":"2012-11-08T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T09:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18994"},"modified":"2020-11-08T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T08:32:25","slug":"angel-we-must-not-be-complacent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2012\/11\/08\/angel-we-must-not-be-complacent\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel: We must not be complacent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the Western Mail\/Walesonline Rangel<\/p>\n<p>has warned Michael Laudrup\u2019s men will face a real fight come the clash with the struggling Saints.<\/p>\n<p>After promising results against big guns Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea, the Swans face a different challenge on Saturday with the trip to lowly Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last few games was a big week of fixtures for us,\u201d said Rangel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe earned\u00a0a lot of credit for the way we performed at Manchester City, while we did very well to win at a big club like Liverpool in the cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we stood up to Chelsea and held the current Champions League holders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Rangel was quick to point out that the Premier League\u2019s rock bottom club would be just as much a struggle as their previous matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we have a very different game to prepare for,\u201d said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouthampton have not made the start they would have hoped for, but they are a team that will fight for everything against us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be as tough as the last few games, maybe even tougher because they are desperate to start moving themselves out of the bottom three.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019ll have the same attitude as if we were playing Manchester City, Liverpool or Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to keep building on our recent performances, and another good result on Saturday will help us move in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swansea could be boosted with the news defender Chico Flores should be available for the trip to the south coast after missing the draw with Chelsea with a dead leg, while fellow centre-half Kyle Bartley has revealed he is close to returning to training having been sidelined since September with a thigh problem.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Swans star Michu has revealed he has gone to the rescue of boyhood club Real Oviedo by joining the likes of Chelsea ace Juan Mata and Arsenal\u2019s Santi Cazorla in buying shares in the financially-stricken Spanish outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Michu is a life-long Oviedo fan having started his career with the side and after a share\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook1\" class=\"itxtnewhook itxthook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swanseacityfc\/swansea-city-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span id=\"itxthook1p\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\"><span id=\"itxthook1w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan\">scheme<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"itxthook1icon\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\u00a0was launched to try and help the Segunda B outfit avoid closure, he told Swansea\u2019s official website swanseacity.net: \u201cWe just wanted to try and help save the club we all played for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy in Spain is very bad and the club needs around two million euros to survive. A lot of people have bought shares and hopefully it will be enough by the closing date of November 17.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read More\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swanseacityfc\/swansea-city-fc\/2012\/11\/07\/swansea-city-must-not-be-complacent-against-southampton-rangel-91466-32184414\/#ixzz2BchmA0z7\">http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swanseacityfc\/swansea-city-fc\/2012\/11\/07\/swansea-city-must-not-be-complacent-against-southampton-rangel-91466-32184414\/#ixzz2BchmA0z7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the Western Mail\/Walesonline Rangel has warned Michael Laudrup\u2019s men will face a real fight come the clash with the struggling Saints. After promising results against big guns Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea, the Swans face a different challenge on Saturday with the trip to lowly Southampton. \u201cThe last few games was a big [&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-18994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994","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=18994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}