{"id":18018,"date":"2011-03-19T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18018"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"brendan-we-were-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/03\/19\/brendan-we-were-brilliant\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan &#8211; We Were Brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager told the official website &quot;I thought we were brilliant today<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Apart from a four minute spell at the end of the first half and the end of the second, we were fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There was a freshness back in our game today and we restricted a very good Forest side to only a few chances.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;ve got to give massive credit to the players to bounce back from our recent run of results to put on a fantastic performance.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I though we could have scored a few more and I don&#39;t think the 3-2 scoreline reflected the game.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Brendan also revealed that he used the sad passing of Swans fan Gwyn David last weekend as part of his pre-match team talk<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My team talk before the game was about putting on a performance for Gwyn and our supporters,&#39;&#39; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I hope that win has given the family a wee bit of joy from what has been a difficult week for them.<\/p>\n<p>And the Swans boss couldn&#39;t end his press conference without singing the praises of Fabio Bolini who rounded off a great performance with two goals on his debut on loan from Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I knew what Fabio was all about. He&#39;s got a natural instinct to score goals and I think everyone could see his qualities today.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He was up against one of the best and most experienced central defenders in the league in Wes Morgan, but his work-rate, passion and attitude was excellent. His finishes were that of a top player.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;ve spoken to his agent, Chelsea and the boy and he has enjoyed his first couple of days here. There is a possible deal in place for the end of the season, but we&#39;ll wait until then to look at it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In the meantime, we&#39;ve got to get ready for an eight-game season and a fantastic finish.&#39;&#39;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager told the official website &quot;I thought we were brilliant today &quot;Apart from a four minute spell at the end of the first half and the end of the second, we were fantastic. &quot;There was a freshness back in our game today and we restricted a very good Forest side to only [&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-18018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018","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=18018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}