Joe Allen believes that the Swans victory over Stoke in their last game can be used as a benchmark for the rest of the season<\/p>\n
The Swans moved into a very healthy 10th place in the Premier League with their 2-0 win over Stoke and Allen believes that it could be used as the benchmark to take the Swans forward this season<\/p>\n
He told BBC Sport\u00a0“This is a benchmark for what we can achieve this season<\/p>\n
“We’re renowned obviously for our style of play and we’ve probably got some of the smallest players in the Premiership.<\/p>\n
“But we wanted to show that we can compete against those types of teams, against those physical presences.”<\/p>\n
Allen is back in Swansea after his time with Wales playing his part in their two international wins and he added “To pick up two wins and be a part of that is an incredible feeling<\/p>\n
“Coming in to the squad for this week we knew there was a feeling of confidence and when we stepped out on the pitch you could see the difference that makes.<\/p>\n
“We’ve ended on a good note and that confidence can be taken into the next campaign.<\/p>\n
“[It was] a privilege to start the last two and I look forward to being part of the squad in the future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Allen believes that the Swans victory over Stoke in their last game can be used as a benchmark for the rest of the season The Swans moved into a very healthy 10th place in the Premier League with their 2-0 win over Stoke and Allen believes that it could be used as the benchmark […]<\/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-18497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497","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=18497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}