{"id":14274,"date":"2007-02-20T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=14274"},"modified":"2021-02-20T17:31:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:31:22","slug":"swansea-0-scunthorpe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2007\/02\/20\/swansea-0-scunthorpe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea 0 Scunthorpe 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managerless Swansea&#8217;s promotion hopes suffered another setback as league leaders Scunthorpe secured a 2-0 victory at the Liberty Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Leading scorer Billy Sharp put the Iron in front with his 22nd goal of the season in the third minute and on-loan striker Jermaine Beckford secured the points with 20 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific Sharp produced a clinical right-foot finish after the Swans&#8217; defence failed to clear their lines.<\/p>\n<p>Swansea stuck with the side that earned a point at Doncaster on Saturday and apart from conceding that early goal they dominated much of the first half but failed to create any clear openings.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of the striker Ade Akinfenwa through injury right on half-time blunted the Swansea attack and they found themselves two goals behind when goalkeeper Willy Gueret could only parry a long-range strike from Neil Mackenzie leaving Beckford with a simple tap-in.<\/p>\n<p>The home side never looked like getting back in the game after the second goal and are now five points adrift of sixth-placed Tranmere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managerless Swansea&#8217;s promotion hopes suffered another setback as league leaders Scunthorpe secured a 2-0 victory at the Liberty Stadium. Leading scorer Billy Sharp put the Iron in front with his 22nd goal of the season in the third minute and on-loan striker Jermaine Beckford secured the points with 20 minutes remaining. The prolific Sharp produced [&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-14274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274","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=14274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}