Planet Swans ArchivesWe go into today’s game against Spurs just a meagre three points ahead of the relegation zone but knowing that a win could lift us into the top half of the table and put more daylight between us and the sides at the bottom end of the table.
Despite the closeness of the gap between us and the bottom three I am still not worried about relegation. The two games we have played since the midway point of the season have been against the two Manchesters – City and United – and we would never really expect to get anything out of those games. We had 21 points at the halfway stage which is on track for 42 over a season and that is a figure I expect us to get towards and possibly beyond by the time the final whistle has blown at Sunderland on the last day of the season.
Even today’s game you could argue that anything other than a defeat is points gained – it is the upcoming next three games where the wins become more important when Fulham and Cardiff come to the Liberty and we travel to West Ham. And the season results (and form too) suggest we are reasonably good at ether winning or not losing these games which is what will happen.
Six or seven points from those three games and the table will look much more comfortable going into mid February and that I genuinely believe will happen.
And clearly that is a belief that runs through the camp at the Liberty with Routledge today telling Wales on Sunday รขโฌลI think weรขโฌโขve been okay in terms of that and we just havenรขโฌโขt been able to pick up points at the right times.
รขโฌลHopefully we can keep performing and the results will turn for us. The whole squad has to do a little bit more, being more clinical and creating more chances.
รขโฌลBut we know we are performing and itรขโฌโขs just about that matter of time before we score more goals and pick up points.”
The one thing that the Swans have been accused of in the first half of the season is not pushing on against the ‘bigger’ teams in the division but that has definitely not been in the case in this last run of fixtures where we have taken on five of the top seven in the last six league games.
Routledge added “We know weรขโฌโขve been playing well and hopefully we can start turning that into wins.
รขโฌลIt is in our own hands about what happens between now and the end of the season.
รขโฌลItรขโฌโขs been a great couple of years, and this is a bump in the road. We have to show our character to get out of the situation we find ourselves in.รขโฌย
And the last line is the truest statement of all in the discussion and that character starts today. Come on you Swans!
