{"id":30603,"date":"2021-03-11T20:24:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=30603"},"modified":"2021-03-12T07:30:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T07:30:51","slug":"jones-wary-of-swansea-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2021\/03\/11\/jones-wary-of-swansea-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones wary of Swansea threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Jones is preparing his Luton side for the visit of the Swans to Kenilworth Road on Saturday lunchtime and he spoke today of the threats he sees in the Swansea camp as we go to Bedfordshire looking for the points that will keep the pressure on at the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>A win for the Swans on Saturday could well see us end the day in the Championship top two with Watford heading in the opposite direction to face Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>As Jones faced the press today he described the Swans as &#8220;well organised and solid&#8221; and talked about some of the players he sees as key threats to his side including &#8216;Premier League striker&#8217; Andre Ayew who is the Swans top scorer this season with 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got good players, they\u2019re not just well organised and solid, they\u2019ve got some excellent players, they have paid the money and they\u2019ve got a Premier League striker in Andre Ayew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJamal Lowe is doing very well for them and they\u2019ve taken someone from the Premier League in terms of Conor Hourihane, so they&#8217;ve got excellent players, they\u2019re a decent footballing side that have got real threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe away game was a real tough game we conceded early which kind of put us on the back foot and then we were probably the better team for large periods of the game until the sending off and even then, we still pushed and pushed. It is going to be a good game, but it\u2019s a tough game, we know that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwansea are doing really well, if they play well and are fluent, they can score and hurt you, when they\u2019re not, they\u2019re grinding out results, so they\u2019re proving to be a very, very adequate Championship side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game at Kenilworth Road kicks off at 12.15pm and will feature on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PRE-MATCH | Nathan Jones on the Sky Bet Championship fixture against Swansea City!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wCkkaLCshVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Jones is preparing his Luton side for the visit of the Swans to Kenilworth Road on Saturday lunchtime and he spoke today of the threats he sees in the Swansea camp as we go to Bedfordshire looking for the points that will keep the pressure on at the top of the table. A win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,303],"tags":[330,351,317],"class_list":["post-30603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-the-opposition-corner","tag-luton-v-swansea-13th-march-2021","tag-nathan-jones","tag-20-21-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30603","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}