{"id":20044,"date":"2015-07-26T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T12:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20044"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"monk-we-played-some-good-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/07\/26\/monk-we-played-some-good-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk &#8211; We Played Some Good Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after they drew 1-1 with Reading, it was twice European Champions Nottingham Forest who held a very different looking Swans side to a 1-1 draw despite Andre Ayew&#8217;s first ever Swansea strike.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew scored past former Swans keeper Dorus De Vries early in the second half but it was soon cancelled out by Forest despite Monk believing that his team was the better on the day.<\/p>\n<p>With just the two weeks until the Chelsea game I think we saw a good indication in the Swans line up of their first defensive line up which will have Neil Taylor in ahead of Tabanou and I think the side that we saw yesterday will only have a couple of changes when they line up at Stamford Bridge on that opening day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was very similar to last night \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we started the game really strongly in the first half. We should have capitalised on a few dangerous situations that we created,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Monk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The second half was more even, but we dominated the ball which was pleasing. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The main part of it is that we got the minutes we needed. The match fitness will do the squad the world of good. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We played some very good stuff today, but there are things for us to improve on. Ultimately, we have to be pleased with what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve achieved over the two games. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swans TV - Reaction: Monk on Forest\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MDtK4IeQs0k?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><#nffc><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after they drew 1-1 with Reading, it was twice European Champions Nottingham Forest who held a very different looking Swans side to a 1-1 draw despite Andre Ayew&#8217;s first ever Swansea strike. Ayew scored past former Swans keeper Dorus De Vries early in the second half but it was soon cancelled [&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-20044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044","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=20044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}