{"id":15235,"date":"2008-08-12T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=15235"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"macdonald-double-sends-swans-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2008\/08\/12\/macdonald-double-sends-swans-through\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald Double Sends Swans Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>myswans.co.uk&nbsp;<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shaun MacDonald struck his first goals in senior football as Swansea City chalked up only a second Carling Cup win in nine years last night.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Swansea product was handed a first start in 20 months by boss Roberto Martinez and responded by netting in each half to stake his claim for much more regular involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Swansea, meantime, will still be involved in the League Cup come the second round for only the second time since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>It was hardly a vintage performance, but MacDonald&#39;s goals gave the home side a well-deserved first victory of the new season over a limited Brentford side.<\/p>\n<p>Match facts:<\/p>\n<p>Swansea City 2<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald 31, 69<\/p>\n<p>de Vries, Tate (capt), Serran, Lawrence, Bessone (Rangel 60), MacDonald, Tudur Jones, Gomez, Orlandi, Brandy (Pratley 71), Scotland (Bauza 79). Subs not used: A Williams, O&#39;Leary, Allen, Gower.<\/p>\n<p>Brentford 0<\/p>\n<p>Hamer, Newton (capt), Wilson, Bennett, Johnson, M Williams, Bean, O&#39;Connor, Pead, Poole, Elder (Ademola 79). Subs not used: Brown, Ochoa, Franks, Osbourne, Connell.<\/p>\n<p>Referee: Steve Bratt (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p>Attendance: 5,366<\/p>\n<p>Booked: Johnson 27, Brandy 42, Bean 63, Bennett 88<\/p>\n<p>Sent off: Bean 86 (second booking)<\/p>\n<p>Star choice: Shaun MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p>Jordi Gomez had a strong case, but the ever-improving MacDonald deserves the plaudits on a night when he scored his first Swansea goal &#8211; and then got another.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment value: 3\/5 &#8211; warmed up after a slow start<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: Roberto Martinez keeps telling us about his squad strength, and the early-season second string notched up a comfortable win here to boost confidence ahead of the next instalment of Swansea&#39;s Championship adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>myswans.co.uk&nbsp; Shaun MacDonald struck his first goals in senior football as Swansea City chalked up only a second Carling Cup win in nine years last night. The 20-year-old Swansea product was handed a first start in 20 months by boss Roberto Martinez and responded by netting in each half to stake his claim for much [&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-15235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15235","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=15235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}