{"id":17717,"date":"2010-11-11T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17717"},"modified":"2020-11-11T07:13:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T07:13:27","slug":"millen-that-was-our-best-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/11\/11\/millen-that-was-our-best-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Millen &#8211; That Was Our Best Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City lost their unbeaten home record thanks to an early goal from Jon Stead that gave the visitors all the spoils on a disappointing night at the Liberty Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>And that factor prompted the positive comments from Bristol City manager Keith Millen who told the Bristol Evening Post after the game &#8220;That was our most complete performance of the season<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s especially pleasing when you construct a game-plan and see your players carry it out to the letter. I thought the lads were magnificent. They defended well, worked hard for one another, kept their shape and discipline and, in the end, could have won the game by a wider margin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To come here, keep a clean sheet and beat a very good team takes some doing and the lads will take a lot of confidence from this performance. That&#8217;s the best we&#8217;ve played this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I emphasised the importance of being positive and not trying to just defend for 90 minutes<\/p>\n<p>We were bold in our team selection and played with two up front and wingers and it paid off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want us to sit back and soak up pressure and I talked to the players about getting on the front foot and causing Swansea problems. We started the game brilliantly and the early goal helped us massively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought Macca epitomised the spirit we have in the side, he was unwell just before the game and we thought about leaving him out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he wanted to play, even after getting a dead leg in the first half, and his spirit and fight was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for Louis, I thought he was excellent against a very dangerous player. He used all his experience and knowhow to keep Sinclair quiet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City lost their unbeaten home record thanks to an early goal from Jon Stead that gave the visitors all the spoils on a disappointing night at the Liberty Stadium. And that factor prompted the positive comments from Bristol City manager Keith Millen who told the Bristol Evening Post after the game &#8220;That was our [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717","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=17717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}