{"id":15910,"date":"2009-01-10T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=15910"},"modified":"2021-01-10T08:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T08:54:15","slug":"pratley-praises-goal-hero-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/01\/10\/pratley-praises-goal-hero-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratley Praises Goal Hero Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City striker was on target twice as the Swans won for the first time in ten games at Burnley in front of the Sky TV cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland struck a first half penalty and a late second after Mark Gower&#8217;s excellent run to give the Swans all three points against the Carling Cup semi finalists.<\/p>\n<p>And those two goals meant that man of the match Pratley was full of praise as he said after the game\u00a0&#8220;At the start of the season the fans were on his back a little bit, but he&#8217;s been different class<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.anm.co.uk\/ADCLICK\/CID=fffffffcfffffffcfffffffc\/AAMSZ=452x118\/SITE=THISISSWAL\/AREA=SPORT\/SUBAREA=\/ARTICLE=603678\/acc_random=786444385\/pageid=\/RS=10232.10244.10257.10307.10323.10364.\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iad.anm.co.uk\/anmdefaultad.gif\" width=\"3\" height=\"3\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The midfielders have scored a lot of goals, but it&#8217;s all been down to his hard work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can go on to score 20 goals, or even 25.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scotland&#8217;s penalty came after he was brought down by Michael Duff, with the referee sending off the Burnley man.<\/p>\n<p>It was a controversial decision, but Scotland had no doubts the referee was correct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guy had his hands around me so I think it was a penalty,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The referee got it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scotland insisted thoughts of securing a play-off spot were at the back of his mind, despite Swansea being just four points off the top six.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will take it one game at a time and then, hopefully, we will be in position for a play-off spot,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City striker was on target twice as the Swans won for the first time in ten games at Burnley in front of the Sky TV cameras. Scotland struck a first half penalty and a late second after Mark Gower&#8217;s excellent run to give the Swans all three points against the Carling Cup semi [&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-15910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15910","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=15910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}