{"id":20088,"date":"2015-08-01T21:28:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T21:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20088"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"monk-we-didnt-quite-have-killer-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/08\/01\/monk-we-didnt-quite-have-killer-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk &#8211; We Didn&#8217;t Quite Have Killer Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans did probably just have the better of the chances during the game and Monk was mindful that the killer chance wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite there in the game for his side.<\/p>\n<p>His focus will now turn to next week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s season opener at Chelsea and there will have been things that he learned from this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game that will give him food for thought in the week.<\/p>\n<p>He admits that he does not know who his starting line up will be next week although some of that will be a coy reply to a pointless question as no manager is going to show his full hand a week before any fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the press conference after the game Monk said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was hard to know what to make of that game to be honest.  First half we started really well and we had a few chances and should have got a goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The game went in spurts with a couple of minutes of action and then nothing before another spurt \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was a bit of a strange game.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153All in all it was a good workout but in the final third we just lacked the final touch.   I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not disappointed it was just a strange game in the way that it flowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was an honest game \u00e2\u20ac\u201c both teams wanted to win but we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find the killer touch and couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite do it today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m happy where the squad is at the moment \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the squad looks strong and we have options.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m under no illusions how tough next week is but it is one that we are looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are determined to try and improve on what we did last season but as I have said before this is going to be the hardest season in the Premier League yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pre-season is difficult to judge in terms of games but I have been pleased with how it is gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am not 100% clear of my starting line up for next week \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we will see how the training goes in the week and select the team towards the end of the week.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swans TV - Reaction : Monk on Deportivo La Coruna\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0JCbrhSX0gs?start=338&#038;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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans did probably just have the better of the chances during the game and Monk was mindful that the killer chance wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite there in the game for his side. His focus will now turn to next week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s season opener at Chelsea and there will have been things that he learned from this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&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-20088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088","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=20088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}