'Results have given Swansea City real belief'
MICHAEL Laudrup believes his Swansea City can look ahead with confidence thanks to their bright start to an unpredictable Premier League season.
Laudrup admits he has been shocked by a clutch of results in the first few weeks of the new top-flight campaign.
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Michael Laudrup
But there have no unpleasant surprises for Swansea's new manager as his team have enjoyed an excellent start to 2012-13.
Swansea sit second in the early-season table after thumping wins over Queens Park Rangers and West Ham as well as a gallant draw with Sunderland.
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Laudrup, who is getting his first taste of English football, said: "What I have made of the games so far is that at least at the start of the season, everybody can beat everybody in the Premier League.
"Everton beat Manchester United, West Brom beat Everton, Southampton were leading Manchester United 2-1 with three minutes to go.
"Liverpool and Tottenham have not won a game yet, and Swansea have not lost yet.
"We all know that further down the line there will be the big teams and the smaller teams and the teams in between.
"But in the beginning we just have to get as many points as we can."
Laudrup admitted in pre-season that Swansea's start to the campaign would be essential given their relatively gentle run of early fixtures.
And despite some concerns after a turbulent summer, Ashley Williams and Co have responded with three morale-boosting results.
"Being second in the table is nice for the fans, but for me the seven points we have are important," Laudrup added.
"We earned those points and no-one can take them away from us.
"The results have given us a lot of confidence — you can see that in the players, in the club and in the city.
"That confidence is much more important than being second, third or fifth right now."
Swansea return to action at Aston Villa on Saturday without Chico Flores following his Sunderland red card. But Laudrup's men have been buoyed by their performance against the Black Cats, when they earned a point despite a number of setbacks in the game.
"We had the injury to Neil (Taylor), the red card and the goal in injury time when we should not have been playing," Laudrup said.
"But despite all that we came back twice and even with one man less, we controlled the game. Their manager said that. so it is not just me. To react like we did when things weren't working the way we wanted as a team was great."
Meanwhile, Swansea are understood to be closing in on former Holland Under-21 left-back Dwight Tiendalli. The Dutchman, released by FC Twente last season, would help fill the void left by Neil Taylor's season-ending ankle injury.
Comments
by AdmireBucs
Thursday, September 13 2012, 3:14PM
“ML was newer shown red. He needs to teach a little composure to chico”
by abertawejack
Monday, September 10 2012, 12:57PM
“Our Team is playing very well, on refection there were times where I thought, mm that should have been played better, only to see good things emerging after a defensive scare: Chico needs to understand his 100% input is all to his credit but do try to calm down a bit boyo, Chico has the ability just a bit reckless at times which can cost our Team. ML is a very good manager he'll obviously take him to one side and explain the pro's and con's of premier league legal requirements, in readiness for next years tough run in games one would imagine, where we'll require all the team on the field for 90 minutes. Once again HJ with is board have pulled another lottery winning ticket out of the hat, of which I'm in awe to them and our team. Get well soon Neil boyo. Swansea City Football Club is similar to superman. Now that's a theme song for our loyal fans to sing at matches, with different words depicting SCFC.”
by JerryLew
Monday, September 10 2012, 12:31PM
“If SWEP are talking about results it would be nice if they updated the table.
Best to check it out on BBC website - at least they are up to date.”
by swanseaola
Monday, September 10 2012, 12:13PM
“We believe. we believe - the Jack Army have always believed. We also are growing in confidence about you Michael!
We have been let down many times in the past, but you appear to be an honest straight talking manager - we want to enjoy the moment and stretch it for as long as possible.”
by Hadoken6773
Monday, September 10 2012, 10:19AM
“All good, I think though what goes around comes around, in other words, there will be times when the wind is knocked out of our sails, but we need to take confidence from our home form, get the team to gel well and we know we are good enough to not only survive, but to get top ten, it would be nice to get the team consistent enough so we never worry about relegation.
The guys just need to give it their all, I watch the swansea sometimes and it seems they are sleeping, then they comes out second half like a different team.
I want them playing like a "different team" all the time.”