{"id":67828,"date":"2022-08-13T22:54:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T21:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=67828"},"modified":"2022-08-14T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:34:30","slug":"martin-relieved-as-slight-changes-pay-dividends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/08\/13\/martin-relieved-as-slight-changes-pay-dividends\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin relieved as slight changes pay dividends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Martin was a happy man after seeing his Swans team win at the fourth attempt this season thanks to Olivier Ntcham&#8217;s breakaway goal which earned a 1-0 win at Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans boss made noticeable changes to his tactical plan today &#8211; something which was clearly being targeted by the opposition for some time &#8211;\u00a0 with a slightly more direct approach playing dividends.<\/p>\n<p>Martin had continually insisted that he wouldn&#8217;t resort to changing his style of play amidst criticism in recent weeks but perhaps today he proved that he can be adaptable when it matters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='Jnuqvn_RSmFte-TF-tXn3g' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242483297' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Jnuqvn_RSmFte-TF-tXn3g',sig:'9qn5lv7hz1IaZ04xo9wti-WBvTnvs8s8euoXRGwEhgE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242483297',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>He told the press post match: \u201cI have said to the lads that I so happy for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first-half they showed so much aggression and a willingness to take risks with the ball, we had a hunger to win it back quickly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-csvncw czUkYu markup\">\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot more energy and intensity in our play, which I liked and that is something I want us to keep building on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We started the second-half poorly and that was self-inflicted and we have to have fewer of those moments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I think there was some tension because we hadn\u2019t scored and we probably felt we should have. They were more aggressive but we have to be able to deal with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe dives [for the penalty] and Blackpool had a really good spell. Fish (goalkeeper Andy Fisher) saves the penalty, but then the crowd is energised and they had a 15-minute spell where they caused us a few too many problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost a bit of control, that is going to happen at times away from home, but we were able to deal with it, the fans were great in getting behind us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked like the team more likely to win the game the longer it went on, we limited them and in the end we got our reward.*<\/p>\n<p>Things look a little bit more positive after a difficult few weeks and with two home games to come it&#8217;s a big opportunity for the team to lay a marker down in the Championship.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='MdcKFLHZQMpJ1u6d_rBo4A' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242481566' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'MdcKFLHZQMpJ1u6d_rBo4A',sig:'L6VZ_pd3KUT7YYzqzZaezDlk1Zxi5mo7VU_Kwmwli94=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242481566',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Martin was a happy man after seeing his Swans team win at the fourth attempt this season thanks to Olivier Ntcham&#8217;s breakaway goal which earned a 1-0 win at Blackpool. The Swans boss made noticeable changes to his tactical plan today &#8211; something which was clearly being targeted by the opposition for some time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":67533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,306],"tags":[666,636,665],"class_list":["post-67828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-reactions","tag-blackpool","tag-russell-martin","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67828","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\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}