{"id":451402,"date":"2018-01-01T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/01\/ghanas-jordan-ayew-told-to-be-a-leader-for-swansea\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T15:34:17","slug":"ghanas-jordan-ayew-told-to-be-a-leader-for-swansea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/01\/ghanas-jordan-ayew-told-to-be-a-leader-for-swansea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Jordan Ayew told to be a &#8216;leader&#8217; for Swansea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday,  1 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>bbc.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/28816482.295.jpg\" alt=\"Swansea Ayew 1\" title=\"Swansea Ayew 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Jordan Ayew&#8217;s goal against Watford on Saturday was his 3rd Premier League goal of the season<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1514820857_81_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Swansea&#8217;s Ghanaian forward Jordan Ayew says the club&#8217;s new manager Carlos Carvalhal has asked him to be &#8220;a leader&#8221; as they look to move out of the Premier League&#8217;s relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew scored his third Premier League goal of the season in Swansea City&#8217;s dramatic 2-1 win against Watford on Saturday which lifted the team off the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gaffer came in and asked me to be the leader in the dressing room,&#8221; Ayew told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I try to do that, I try to show it on the pitch as well as with my running, with my commitment, with my fighting spirit and that&#8217;s what I try to do now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like to lose because I think I can do much more, I can give more to the team,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He described Swansea&#8217;s win over Watford as &#8220;incredible&#8221; &#8211; giving new manager Carlos Carvalhal a victory in his first match in charge since his appointment on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew said the three points have given the team a boost as they head into the new year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a massive feeling. It was incredible that we got rewarded because we really worked hard. It&#8217;s a good step forward,&#8221; said Ayew.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The manager told us to do the basic things. He said if you don&#8217;t run you come and sit down next to me (on the bench).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The win was the Welsh side&#8217;s first away victory in the Premier League since August.<\/p>\n<p>They face Tottenham at home in their next game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 2 updated by: 2 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Monday, 1 January 2018 Source: bbc.com 2018-01-01 Jordan Ayew&#8217;s goal against Watford on Saturday was his 3rd Premier League goal of the season Swansea&#8217;s Ghanaian forward Jordan Ayew says the club&#8217;s new manager Carlos Carvalhal has asked him to be &#8220;a leader&#8221; as they look to move out of the Premier League&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":451403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}