{"id":18226,"date":"2020-01-03T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=18226"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:32:14","slug":"this-is-just-the-beginning-i-need-to-score-more-goals-andre-ayew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2020\/01\/03\/this-is-just-the-beginning-i-need-to-score-more-goals-andre-ayew\/","title":{"rendered":"This is just the beginning; I need to score more goals &#8211; Andre Ayew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nsemgh.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/ayew-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/ayew-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/ayew-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/ayew.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andre Ayew insists there is more to come from him despite taking his Swansea City tally into double figures for the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian was the match winner at Luton on Saturday as he chested home Jay Fulton\u2019s 82nd-minute cross to seal a 1-0 victory for the Swans.<\/p>\n<p>That gave Ayew his 10th goal of the campaign and fourth in his last three appearances \u2013 having also netted in the draw with Blackburn, as well as a brace in the victory over Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n<p>The vice-captain was delighted to score another important goal for Steve Cooper\u2019s side, but says he is not resting on his laurels yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great, great feeling to score the winner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have great players around me and I\u2019m trying to utilise them in the best way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players, staff and fans have a lot of confidence in me, so the only way I can repay them is by scoring goals, providing assists and giving my best in every game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very important goal. I scored a few important ones in 2015. I need to try to keep getting those goals; that\u2019s why I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScoring 10 goals isn\u2019t bad, but I need to do more. This is just the beginning and I\u2019m not going to get carried away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swans\u2019 second win in as many games took them back into the top six at the midway point in the Championship season.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper\u2019s side had 20 shots on goal at Kenilworth Road and were eventually rewarded for their persistence as Ayew gave them a well-deserved victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won at home last week and wanted to keep our momentum going. Overall, I think we deserved the win,\u201d the 30-year-old added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCredit to Luton, they defended really well, made a lot of blocks and their tactical shape wasn\u2019t bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey caused us problems in terms of finding our way into their zone, but we dominated the game and played good football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was important not to concede because we knew that if we continued to create chances, one would definitely go in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kept pushing and believed in what we were doing from the start of the game. In the end, it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:ghanaguardian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nsemgh.com Andre Ayew insists there is more to come from him despite taking his Swansea City tally into double figures for the season. The Ghanaian was the match winner at Luton on Saturday as he chested home Jay Fulton\u2019s 82nd-minute cross to seal a 1-0 victory for the Swans. That gave Ayew his 10th goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[8847,10387,9331,9026,5247,7090,4521,8870,8126,67,1137,11973,13256,11653,7419,6348,10885],"class_list":["post-18226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-andre-ayew","tag-campaign","tag-city","tag-fans","tag-football","tag-games","tag-ghanaian","tag-luton","tag-match","tag-nsemgh","tag-nsemgh-com","tag-one","tag-players","tag-steve-cooper","tag-the-game","tag-us","tag-victory"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51492,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226\/revisions\/51492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}