{"id":40732,"date":"2021-04-26T07:20:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=40732"},"modified":"2021-04-26T07:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:20:04","slug":"cooper-happy-with-swans-draw-but-wants-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2021\/04\/26\/cooper-happy-with-swans-draw-but-wants-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper happy with Swans draw but wants more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cooper has sent out a clear message to his players after they secured a play off position with a draw at Reading yesterday when he said &#8220;We want more than we had last season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Swans secured a second successive play off campaign and, ironically, secured it on the same ground as they secured last year&#8217;s although this time around it may have lacked the drama of last season&#8217;s 4-1 win but ultimately remained enough to secure that top six finish.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Jamal Lowe and Andre Ayew looked to have given the Swans a win which would have lifted them back to 3rd in the table but a late equaliser at least earned the hosts a point even though it was in a game they had to win to keep alive their own play-off aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans will now be joined by Brentford, Bournemouth and Barnsley to compete for a place in next season&#8217;s Premier League with matches starting on May 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy to be in there in the play-offs, we are satisfied, but we want more than we had last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis club has had big moments, it has been in the Premier League, it has won a major honour and played in Europe, so I don\u2019t want our ambition as a club to be that getting in the play-offs is an achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the same time, in the current world\u00a0 a lot of teams invest\u00a0 a lot of money in this league and unfortunately we have not been able to do that over my two years here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, to think we still compete at the right end of the table is all credit to the players, we might not have a massive squad, and we might not have lots of strength and depth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when it comes to spirit and style, and pride to play for a football club,\u00a0we\u00a0have those in abundance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Cooper on Reading | Post-Match\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qEl6CZBymHk?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>Steve Cooper has sent out a clear message to his players after they secured a play off position with a draw at Reading yesterday when he said &#8220;We want more than we had last season.&#8221; The Swans secured a second successive play off campaign and, ironically, secured it on the same ground as they secured [&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":[293,49,306],"tags":[573,332,317],"class_list":["post-40732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-reactions","tag-reading-v-swansea-efl-championship","tag-steve-cooper","tag-20-21-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40732","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=40732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}