{"id":18646,"date":"2011-12-18T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18646"},"modified":"2020-12-17T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:40:24","slug":"brendan-a-fantastic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/12\/18\/brendan-a-fantastic-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan &#8211; A Fantastic Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodgers said after the game\u00a0&#8220;It was a fantastic performance<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was always going to be a difficult game because Newcastle have had a terrific start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the players showed great character and resilience and to restrict them to just four shots on target, at home, is a great effort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To keep eight clean sheets in 16 games just maintains the myth that we can&#8217;t defend and are just a passing team,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michel made one good save in the first half, but our clean sheet record is a team ethos and all about organisation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think our positioning was good in the first period,&#8221; said Brendan. &#8220;We got a bit excited when we had the ball, but we also defended well and we had to retain our calmness and composure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wayne and Jazz Richards\u00a0did fantastic on the right hand side to stop the threat of Santon and Gutierrez who were linking up well in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were two right footed players playing on the left and I thought our concentration was excellent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodgers said after the game\u00a0&#8220;It was a fantastic performance &#8220;It was always going to be a difficult game because Newcastle have had a terrific start to the season. &#8220;But the players showed great character and resilience and to restrict them to just four shots on target, at home, is a great effort. &#8220;To keep eight [&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-18646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646","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=18646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}