{"id":63290,"date":"2022-04-30T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=63290"},"modified":"2022-04-30T18:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T17:17:37","slug":"cooper-happy-for-swansea-to-have-the-ball-because-thats-what-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/04\/30\/cooper-happy-for-swansea-to-have-the-ball-because-thats-what-they-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper &#8216;happy for Swansea to have the ball&#8221; because &#8216;they concede lots of chances and goals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper gave a damning assessment of his gameplan in the 5-1 hammering of the Swans this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Forest dominated all parts of the game except for the possession stats but Cooper says that he was happy to see that because of the amount of chances Russell Martin&#8217;s team concede whilst in possession.<\/p>\n<p>In a depressing watch, it could have been far worse than 5-1 by the end of the match with the former Swans boss admitting it could have been 5 by half time. He&#8217;s probably right.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper told the press post match: &#8220;We were very happy for Swansea to have the ball as much as they did, because that&#8217;s what they do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But they also give up a lot of chances and concede a lot of goals. So there was a clear game-plan for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It finished 5-1, but it should have been 5-1 at half time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow that&#8217;s pretty miserable reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='WqG2bELMScZll8S2xXeHdg' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1240349976' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'WqG2bELMScZll8S2xXeHdg',sig:'v2pchiT1jkH3jCICFiD0lvg5treQiK-aNFMYuPPbUuA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1240349976',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper gave a damning assessment of his gameplan in the 5-1 hammering of the Swans this afternoon. Forest dominated all parts of the game except for the possession stats but Cooper says that he was happy to see that because of the amount of chances Russell Martin&#8217;s team concede whilst in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":62800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,306],"tags":[548,332,608],"class_list":["post-63290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-reactions","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-steve-cooper","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290","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\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}