{"id":20853,"date":"2016-08-20T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20853"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"phelan-keeping-his-feet-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2016\/08\/20\/phelan-keeping-his-feet-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Phelan Keeping His Feet On The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hull only have 13 fit players at this point in time and under the caretaker management of Mike Phelan they were tipped for relegation for much of the pre-season period but have started brilliantly with today&#8217;s win following up last week&#8217;s defeat of the Champions.<\/p>\n<p>With Manchester United next up for Hull it is no wonder Mike Phelan was keeping his feet on the ground after the game<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The difficulty to come here was to see if we could go after them or contain them. The players stuck to their task and we created more chances than them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to take credit sometimes. We only have 13 senior players fit and it was an opportunity to get Shaun Maloney out there and it was a bit of a gamble. It paid off, especially for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are two sides to a game of football, in and out of possession<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew what Swansea would do with the ball and it was about conserving energy.<br \/>\n&#8220;We wanted to get to 75 minutes and kick on form there, it worked really well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There have been disturbances and upheaval at the club but the players have seen through that and been professional. It is only two games and there is a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully we will be doing some business in the next week, we have to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swans TV - Reaction: Mike Phelan\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pvnEQOa0G2E?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><#hcafc #pl #SWAHUL><copyrightAction Images><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hull only have 13 fit players at this point in time and under the caretaker management of Mike Phelan they were tipped for relegation for much of the pre-season period but have started brilliantly with today&#8217;s win following up last week&#8217;s defeat of the Champions. With Manchester United next up for Hull it is no [&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-20853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853","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=20853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}