{"id":21274,"date":"2018-10-19T21:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=21274"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:12:20","slug":"back-to-the-real-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2018\/10\/19\/back-to-the-real-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the real stuff&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that a week is a long time in football and two weeks definitely is as we face a Villa side that have been through the mill with a change in management following a disappointing run of form over the past couple of months.<b><b><span style=\"color: white;\"><u>s link<\/u><\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dean Smith takes control of Villa for the first time as the home team look to end a run of five straight defeats to the Swans in front of a crowd of more than 40,000 at Villa Park.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa captain James Chester will return for Dean Smith&#8217;s first game in charge of the club as they take on Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p>The Wales defender was banned for the 2-1 defeat at Millwall, while striker Scott Hogan (groin) is also fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We know they are going to be organised and they are going to be strong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was the view of Graham Potter ahead of the game<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And we know that we are going to have to be good. We need to rise to the occasion, because I think this will be a fantastic football occasion and hopefully a great advert for the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably as tough an environment as we could go into in this division.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not long ago it might have been quite a negative environment for the home team, where you feel if you keep them quiet for a little while the supporters might turn.<\/p>\n<p>Stats fans will love the following two stats ahead of the game<\/p>\n<p>* The Swans are the only Championship side yet to score from a set piece this season whilst Aston Villa have conceded the most from set pieces with 11<\/p>\n<p>* The Swans have not scored a first half away league goal since December 2017 &#8211; 16 trips ago.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be preceded by a minutes silence in memory of former Villa Chairman Sir Doug Ellis.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;#avfc&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that a week is a long time in football and two weeks definitely is as we face a Villa side that have been through the mill with a change in management following a disappointing run of form over the past couple of months.s link Dean Smith takes control of Villa for the first [&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-21274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274","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=21274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}