{"id":49934,"date":"2021-11-21T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T08:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=49934"},"modified":"2021-11-20T22:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:17:24","slug":"the-best-footballing-side-in-the-division-blackpool-boss-critchley-praises-the-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2021\/11\/21\/the-best-footballing-side-in-the-division-blackpool-boss-critchley-praises-the-swans\/","title":{"rendered":"“The best footballing side in the division” – Blackpool boss Critchley praises the Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Critchley was clearly a happy man yesterday after watching his side come from a goal down to take a point back to the North West from South Wales thanks to a late goal from Keshi Anderson.<\/p>\n

Anderson struck to cancel out Joel Piroe’s first half opener for the Swans but it was a host of penalty decisions that were not given that was one of the main talking points after the game with Russell Martin confirming that the Swans were to send a video compilation of recent appeals that were not given.<\/p>\n

Critchley though was full of praise for the Swans after the game \u201cSwansea play a unique brand of football, they\u2019re the best footballing side in the division and their home record is outstanding,\u201d said Critchley.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe decided the best way to combat that was to change our shape today and we gave them a real problem without the ball in the first-half.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther than the lad striking one in the top corner from 25 yards, they didn\u2019t really get near the goal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the second-half, we showed real courage on the ball and we got on top of them and we made them do what they don\u2019t want to do, which is defend. At times we were in control of the game and that takes real bravery and ability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe didn\u2019t threaten the goal enough, but we were growing into the game all the time and in the end I don\u2019t think anything can begrudge us of our point.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur character is never to be doubted though, we have it in abundance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe togetherness and the work ethic, you need it here because there are times when they\u2019ll send you a little bit dizzy with the football they play.<\/div>\n
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“For us to come here as the away team, and I\u2019ve seen a lot of their games where they\u2019ve won 3-0 and scorelines like that, we\u2019ve been more than a match for them today.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neil Critchley was clearly a happy man yesterday after watching his side come from a goal down to take a point back to the North West from South Wales thanks to a late goal from Keshi Anderson. Anderson struck to cancel out Joel Piroe’s first half opener for the Swans but it was a host […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,303],"tags":[666,667,608],"class_list":["post-49934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-the-opposition-corner","tag-blackpool","tag-neil-critchley","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}