I'm trying to extract a tar archive to a specific directory. I've tried using -C flag but it doesn't work as expected. Here is the commandline I'm using

tar xvf myarchive.tar -C mydirectory/

This gives me a following error:

tar: file -C: not present in archive
tar: file mydirectory/: not present in archive

I've also tried setting the -C flag before the archive file but it just says this:

tar xvf -C mydirectory/ myarchive.tar
tar: -C: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: tar -tf shows that the tar archive does not have full path names:

tar -tf myarchive.tar
herareport/
herareport/bin/
...