{"id":19581,"date":"2014-09-27T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=19581"},"modified":"2020-09-27T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T06:57:44","slug":"monk-we-werent-at-our-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2014\/09\/27\/monk-we-werent-at-our-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk &#8211; We Weren&#8217;t At Our Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans secured a point despite the late sending off of Angel Rangel and despite not creating massive amounts of chances it was a deserved point despite Monk&#8217;s comments about the level of performance.<\/p>\n<p>The result also halted a run of two league defeats and kept the Swans in 5th place in the Premier League table with the next international break just one week away from starting. A win next week could see us head into that break in the Champions League places in the division and would be a perfect end to a period of the season that has also seen us progress to the 4th Round of the Capital One Cup again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at the game overall, we weren&#8217;t at our fluid best,&#8221; admitted the Swans boss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the next best thing after that is to defend well and make sure you don&#8217;t get beat. We did that today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve played very well this season, but we know we can&#8217;t play our best every single game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t create enough to win the game, but apart from a couple of headers from them it was a pretty much nothing game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always difficult when you come to a place like this. Sunderland are a good team and they have a good manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had to show a different side today and were rewarded for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swans TV - Reaction: Monk on Sunderland\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJ3ZxF6oo_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&lt;#safc&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans secured a point despite the late sending off of Angel Rangel and despite not creating massive amounts of chances it was a deserved point despite Monk&#8217;s comments about the level of performance. The result also halted a run of two league defeats and kept the Swans in 5th place in the Premier League [&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-19581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19581","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=19581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}