{"id":10592,"date":"2004-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"earnshaw-destorys-scots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2004\/02\/18\/earnshaw-destorys-scots\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnshaw Destorys Scots"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Earnshaw Hat Trick Destroys Scots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Nationwide Report<\/p>\n<p>Robert Earnshaw helped himself to an impressive hat-trick as Wales demolished Scotland 4-0 in the international friendly at the Millennium Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The home side took just 44 seconds to go ahead, as captain Gary Speed played a ball over the top of the visiting defence to Earnshaw who ran on and slotted it past Robert Douglas.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardiff City striker twice went close to doubling his tally, with a 20-yard drive that was deflected wide by Gary Naysmith and a header that was just inches over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland then created a string of chances, with Colin Cameron firing wide, Kenny Miller heading over and Paul Dickov shooting straight at the keeper.<\/p>\n<p>Wales&#8217; Simon Davies limped out of the action just after the half-hour mark to be replaced by Cardiff City&#8217;s Paul Parry, making his international debut just six weeks after leaving non-league Hereford United.<\/p>\n<p>Parry&#8217;s first touch saw him beat two players before setting Ryan Giggs free and the Manchester United man&#8217;s cross found Earnshaw, who scrambled home the second from close range.<\/p>\n<p>Berti Vogts&#8217; team worked hard to pull one back before the break, but a misdirected Darren Fletcher effort was the closest they came.<\/p>\n<p>The second half continued in the same fashion with Earnshaw firing wide on the turn after Speed and Giggs combined to play him in.<\/p>\n<p>He was not to be denied his hat-trick though and in the 58th minute he latched on to a throughball from Robbie Savage and unleashed an unstoppable drive from the edge of the area to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Dickov tried to find a way back into the game for Scotland but could only shoot straight at Wales&#8217; substitute keeper Darren Ward after turning smartly inside the area.<\/p>\n<p>Wales thought they had made it four when Gareth Taylor headed the ball past Douglas, but his effort was chalked off for pushing.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor did get his name on to the scoresheet though, slotting the ball home in the 78th minute after more good work from Parry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Why not check out the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/wales\/southwest\/sites\/mystory\/index.shtml\"> Vetch Verdict<\/a> on the BBC site?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earnshaw Hat Trick Destroys Scots Nationwide Report Robert Earnshaw helped himself to an impressive hat-trick as Wales demolished Scotland 4-0 in the international friendly at the Millennium Stadium. The home side took just 44 seconds to go ahead, as captain Gary Speed played a ball over the top of the visiting defence to Earnshaw who [&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-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","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=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}