Giles had last week claimed that a Cardiff City victory was a foregone conclusion as they looked to extend their advantage over the Swans.<\/p>\n
But a Marvin Emnes goal gave the Swans a deserved victory in a game that they dominated for the most part.<\/p>\n
And that forced Giles to admit he was wrong as he told the Evening Post “I will put my hands up \u2014 I was totally wrong<\/p>\n
“Swansea, from one to 11, were the better team.<\/p>\n
“Every single one of their players is happy on the ball and they can pass it \u2014 even the goalkeeper can chip the ball to the two full-backs.<\/p>\n
“The back four were brilliant, and as for Joe Allen, he is going to be something special.<\/p>\n
“I knew he was a good passer and that he had nice feet, but on Sunday he showed he can compete as well against a difficult opponent in Seyi Olofinjana.<\/p>\n
“The movement and passing in the Swansea midfield was good and Cardiff couldn’t cope with it.<\/p>\n
“I thought everyone in the Swansea side was great.<\/p>\n
“The two wide boys ran the legs off the Cardiff full-backs and I thought Marvin Emnes was outstanding playing the lone striker role against two big, strong centre-halves.<\/p>\n
“I thought he (Craig Bellamy) would be the difference but Cardiff couldn’t get him the ball<\/p>\n
“The two full-backs, Alan Tate and Angel Rangel were very strong and I think Swansea have the best two centre-halves in the Championship.<\/p>\n
“Garry Monk just gets better and better the more I look at him.<\/p>\n
“Nothing fazes him and he is a great captain. Okay, he might lack a bit of pace, but he never gets beaten.<\/p>\n
“I just feel Swansea would be a different proposition if they had a 20-goal-a-season striker like Jason Scotland.<\/p>\n
“Who knows, maybe they could keep hold of Emnes. I think if they could do that, they would be okay with Stephen Dobbie there as well.<\/p>\n
“But if Emnes does go back, they will need someone else.<\/p>\n
“Swansea have raised the bar with the performance on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“And if they keep everyone fit, it is hard to see any weaknesses in the team. I really, really enjoyed watching them in the derby and I think they’ve shown everyone they are the best team in the league \u2014 there’s no doubt about that.<\/p>\n
“I can see them competing along with Cardiff, who will also get results in the Championship.<\/p>\n
“I’m not being disrespectful to the rest of the clubs in the division but, let’s be honest, it’s not the strongest league this year.<\/p>\n
“Both clubs have a fantastic chance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Giles had last week claimed that a Cardiff City victory was a foregone conclusion as they looked to extend their advantage over the Swans. But a Marvin Emnes goal gave the Swans a deserved victory in a game that they dominated for the most part. And that forced Giles to admit he was wrong as […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710","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=17710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}