{"id":12652,"date":"2017-04-28T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/2017\/04\/28\/paul-clement-insists-swansea-city-have-turned-a-corner-in-relegation-battle\/"},"modified":"2017-04-28T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:03:43","slug":"paul-clement-insists-swansea-city-have-turned-a-corner-in-relegation-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=12652","title":{"rendered":"Paul Clement Insists Swansea City Have &#039;Turned a Corner&#039; in Relegation Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"71.1433427762\">\n<p>Swansea City put an abrupt stop to a six game stretch without a victory last Saturday, defeating Mark Hughes&#8217; Stoke City 2-0 at the Liberty Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Clement&#8217;s struggling Swans &#8211; who currently sit two points behind 17th placed Hull City in the Premier League table &#8211; travel to Old Trafford this coming Sunday and Clement,\u00a0speaking to the media\u00a0on Thursday,\u00a0<inline style=\"background-color: initial; font-size: 1em;\">was left brimming with confidence after the recent win against the Potters, claiming that his squad have &#8216;put it right.&#8217;<\/inline><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container imageEmbedded\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-url=\"http:\/\/90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com\/production\/5902331d69783fbd61000001.jpg\" data-large_url=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/swansea-manager-paul-clement-looks-on-before-the-premier-league-match-picture-id663825882?b=1&#038;k=6&#038;m=663825882&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=LXYUM8UjPTLW2KtPjhTOPutHawkGjVWWVoQdN7at6b4=\" data-title=\"Swansea City v Middlesbrough - Premier League\" data-description=\"SWANSEA, WALES - APRIL 02:  Swansea manager Paul Clement looks on before the Premier League match between Swansea City and Middlesbrough at Liberty Stadium on April 2, 2017 in Swansea, Wales.  (Photo by Stu Forster\/Getty Images)\" data-credit=\"Stu Forster\/GettyImages\" data-date=\"2017-04-02\" data-ratio=\"16\/9\" data-crop=\"\"x\":0.05065359477124183,\"y\":0.08849557522123894,\"w\":0.8976034858387798,\"h\":0.911504424778761\" data-getty_image=\"true\" data-afp_image=\"false\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\" data-is-animated=\"false\" data-width=\"undefined\" data-height=\"undefined\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.minutemediacdn.com\/process?url=http%3A%2F%2F90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fproduction%2F5902331d69783fbd61000001.jpg&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bw%5D=0.8976034858387798&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bh%5D=0.911504424778761&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_x%5D=0.05065359477124183&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_y%5D=0.08849557522123894&#038;filters%5Bquality%5D%5Btarget%5D=80&#038;type=.jpg&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bw%5D=578&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bh%5D=325\" alt=\"Swansea City v Middlesbrough - Premier League\" title=\"Stu Forster\/GettyImages\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\"><inline style=\"background-color: initial;\"><inline style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Swansea&#8217;s boss shared his relief in ending a <\/inline>weak<inline style=\"font-size: 1em;\">\u00a0domestic showing in recent weeks by saying:\u00a0<\/inline><\/inline><inline style=\"background-color: initial; font-size: 1em;\">&#8220;That run lasted much longer than we all would have liked. One point in six games is clearly not very good.<\/inline><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">&#8220;We did put it right (against Stoke) both in terms of the performance and the application which I thought was very good, particularly in the first half.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5w3ZLMLLRw\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"Youtube embed--Youtube embed--generic-iframe embeded-video-player\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">&#8220;We had that bit of luck with their penalty miss. But I think we were due it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">With his squad raring themselves for a testing encounter against Jose Mourinho&#8217;s Red Devils, Clement then proceeded to convey his optimism, whilst remaining assured of his team&#8217;s abilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">&#8220;I am very confident. Maybe I would not have been if we had not got that good result and also the good performance,&#8221; he claimed.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container imageEmbedded\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-url=\"http:\/\/90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com\/production\/590233567723719db1000001.jpg\" data-large_url=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/swansea-defender-mike-van-der-hoorn-congratulates-goalscorer-tom-picture-id671588326?b=1&#038;k=6&#038;m=671588326&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=nBM5VbKBDq9OAsSo2pPc_6lRsEj8bqmSBoO-iScxkSY=\" data-title=\"Swansea City v Stoke City - Premier League\" data-description=\"SWANSEA, WALES - APRIL 22:  Swansea defender Mike van der Hoorn (l) congratulates goalscorer Tom Carroll after the Premier League match between Swansea City and Stoke City at Liberty Stadium on April 22, 2017 in Swansea, Wales.  (Photo by Stu Forster\/Getty Images)\" data-credit=\"Stu Forster\/GettyImages\" data-date=\"2017-04-22\" data-ratio=\"16\/9\" data-crop=\"\"x\":0.012058823529411764,\"y\":0.045714285714285714,\"w\":0.9493930905695611,\"h\":0.8857142857142857\" data-getty_image=\"true\" data-afp_image=\"false\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\" data-is-animated=\"false\" data-width=\"undefined\" data-height=\"undefined\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.minutemediacdn.com\/process?url=http%3A%2F%2F90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fproduction%2F590233567723719db1000001.jpg&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bw%5D=0.9493930905695611&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bh%5D=0.8857142857142857&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_x%5D=0.012058823529411764&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_y%5D=0.045714285714285714&#038;filters%5Bquality%5D%5Btarget%5D=80&#038;type=.jpg&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bw%5D=578&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bh%5D=325\" alt=\"Swansea City v Stoke City - Premier League\" title=\"Stu Forster\/GettyImages\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">Swansea could also potentially see the return of a number of strong first team members to their ranks, with Leroy Fer, Jack Cork and Martin Olsson all making swift recoveries from their recent injury woes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">In light of the pending returns to his fold, Clement ended by saying:\u00a0<inline style=\"background-color: initial; font-size: 1em;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a good problem for me to have, with injured players coming back.&#8221;<\/inline><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" readability=\"2\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City put an abrupt stop to a six game stretch without a victory last Saturday, defeating Mark Hughes&#8217; Stoke City 2-0 at the Liberty Stadium. Paul Clement&#8217;s struggling Swans &#8211; who currently sit two points behind 17th placed Hull City in the Premier League table &#8211; travel to Old Trafford this coming Sunday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swansea-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}