{"id":16700,"date":"2009-09-12T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16700"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"mellor-chuffed-to-get-one-over-on-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/09\/12\/mellor-chuffed-to-get-one-over-on-swans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellor Chuffed To Get One Over On Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea comfortably beat the Lilywhites twice last season &#8211; 2-0 at Deepdale and 4-1 at the Liberty &#8211; and Mellor was delighted to finally get one over the Welshmen.<\/p>\n<p>The former Liverpool striker told the Preston official site: &#8220;Last season we played Swansea away from home and got a bit of a footballing lesson and lost 4-1 so it was important this time around that we were on our toes and gave them a bit of their own medicine,&#8221; the striker said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought at times Swansea passed the ball really well and at times it was doggies for us to try and get the ball back. I think their home form will be key for them this season but it is really nice to get a win because last season we got turned over by them twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alan Irvine was equally pleased to get the three points: &#8220;We knew that Swansea would be really well organised and if you don&#8217;t do your job they will open you up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we stuck to our task, created plenty of chances and could have won more comfortably in the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea comfortably beat the Lilywhites twice last season &#8211; 2-0 at Deepdale and 4-1 at the Liberty &#8211; and Mellor was delighted to finally get one over the Welshmen. The former Liverpool striker told the Preston official site: &#8220;Last season we played Swansea away from home and got a bit of a footballing lesson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}