{"id":959325,"date":"2026-05-14T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:13:19","slug":"iyogun-saints-targeting-a-performance-to-be-proud-of-against-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959325\/","title":{"rendered":"Iyogun: Saints targeting a performance to be proud of against Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Northampton Saints are targeting a \u2018performance to be proud of\u2019 in Friday night\u2019s showdown with Bristol Bears at cinch Stadium at Franklin\u2019s Gardens, according to Immanuel Iyogun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The long-serving loosehead prop stressed that the mindset remains unchanged, despite the men in Black, Green and Gold entering the Gallagher PREM Round 16 encounter off the back of a disappointing East Midlands derby defeat to Leicester Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim is always to have a performance we are proud of,\u201d said the 25-year-old. \u201cWe cannot always control whether we win or not. To be honest, we back ourselves that if we perform well, typically it means we\u2019ve put ourselves in the best place to win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t really look outside in terms of the league table or who wins where \u2014 we just focus on our performance and what we can control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iyogun moved to within three appearances of a half-century for the club in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptonsaints.co.uk\/news\/match-report-leicester-tigers-41-17-northampton-saints\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>41-17 <\/strong><\/a>defeat at Mattioli Woods Welford Road last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, Saints remain top of the table and have their destiny in their own hands as they seek to secure a home PREM playoff semi-final for the second time in three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerspective is very important,\u201d Iyogun added. \u201cIt\u2019s about zooming out and saying things aren\u2019t that bad \u2014 things are never as good or as bad as you think. If you\u2019d asked at the start of the season whether we\u2019d take being top of the league with three weeks to go, we absolutely would. But we wouldn\u2019t have taken that individual performance, so it\u2019s important we don\u2019t fixate on it. We\u2019ve performed plenty of times this season; it\u2019s about balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cIt was tough to take on Monday morning, but we\u2019ve licked our wounds now and gone into the preview for this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northampton Saints are targeting a \u2018performance to be proud of\u2019 in Friday night\u2019s showdown with Bristol Bears at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-959325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116573110795690686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}