{"id":54218,"date":"2022-02-02T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=54218"},"modified":"2022-02-02T07:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:29:01","slug":"how-many-times-have-i-said-that-russell-martin-on-the-same-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/02\/02\/how-many-times-have-i-said-that-russell-martin-on-the-same-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How many times have I said that?&#8221;  &#8211; Russell Martin on the same issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Martin must feel himself that he sounds like a stuck record when talking about matches that the Swans have lost and last night was no different as he rued the Swans missed chances that he feels cost his side anything out of the Luton game.<\/p>\n<p>A second half strike from Luton&#8217;s Harry Cornick proved to be the decisive moment of the game as the visitors left the Swansea.com stadium with all three points in their pocket and consigned the Swans to a second successive defeat and a third successive game without scoring.<\/p>\n<p>It is now just two goals in the last five league games for Russell Martin and his side and came after the boss gave a rare start to Michael Obafemi in a bid to try and change things around.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans now sit 19th in the Championship after that defeat and are starting to look a little nervously over their shoulders at the five teams below them, although there remains a 12-point gap between us and the bottom three.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not completely worrying times for the Swans boss but certainly concerning times as the strong form of October is nothing more than a distant memory off the back of 12 points from our last 12 outings.<\/p>\n<p>The boss though continues to rue the missed chances in games where he believes his side is still the better team as he explained in his press conference after the game &#8220;We have to score when we are on top, how many times have I said that? It\u2019s that little bit of quality in the final third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael has a brilliant chance, Hannes has a brilliant chance and in another game or two that might have been another outcome as I thought he was great tonight, and Michael did well too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBen Cabango hits the post from five yards out and Ryan Bennett missed the follow-up, and it means we are really disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not see many problems with the performance in general, they made it hard for us when we did not beat the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lads are giving us everything they have got, that is all you can ask. We limited them to very little, we had a lot of the ball but we have got to make more of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately at the moment, it is not quite clicking in the final third and we concede such a poor goal. You cannot concede a goal like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russell Martin on Luton Town | Press Conference\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WXCnv1w6fuA?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>Russell Martin must feel himself that he sounds like a stuck record when talking about matches that the Swans have lost and last night was no different as he rued the Swans missed chances that he feels cost his side anything out of the Luton game. A second half strike from Luton&#8217;s Harry Cornick proved [&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":[293,49,203,306],"tags":[543,636,608],"class_list":["post-54218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-reactions","tag-luton-town","tag-russell-martin","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54218","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=54218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}