{"id":17880,"date":"2011-01-16T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17880"},"modified":"2021-01-16T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T09:02:35","slug":"brendan-i-thought-we-were-excellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/01\/16\/brendan-i-thought-we-were-excellent\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan &#8211; I Thought We Were Excellent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea moved into 2nd place in the Championship table with the win &#8211; secured thanks to goals from Darren Pratley and a penalty double from Scott Sinclair.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking after the game, Rodgers said &#8220;I thought we were excellent today, if you asked me the question whether I thought we could stay in the top two or top six, then the answer would be yes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you asked me if I thought these players had the ability to challenge at the top end of the table, then the answer is yes again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We showed a lot of our traits today in front of the cameras. We attacked full of creativity and worked hard as a defensive unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people talk about the possession we always have, but the big thing that doesn&#8217;t often get highlighted is the intensity of pressure we put on teams when we haven&#8217;t got the ball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We work hard as a team and that gets us the ball back quickly to go on the offensive again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The players deserve a lot of credit for the way they work. We&#8217;ve won\u00a0four of our last six games now in all competitions and we&#8217;ve got all the top teams to play here. So it&#8217;s down to us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I said it was an excellent performance against a difficult Palace side with some very good players. Credit to Crystal Palace, they worked hard today and made it difficult for us at times. I&#8217;ve got no doubt they will get out of the trouble they are in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea moved into 2nd place in the Championship table with the win &#8211; secured thanks to goals from Darren Pratley and a penalty double from Scott Sinclair. And speaking after the game, Rodgers said &#8220;I thought we were excellent today, if you asked me the question whether I thought we could stay in the top [&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-17880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880","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=17880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}