{"id":16682,"date":"2009-09-04T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16682"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"macdonald-captain-as-u-21s-beat-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/09\/04\/macdonald-captain-as-u-21s-beat-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald Captain As U-21&#8217;s Beat Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joined by MacDonald in the U-21&#8217;s squad were fellow Swans team-mates David Cornell, Casey Thomas and Ashley Richards.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Flynn&#8217;s men went ahead through Bristol City defender Christian Ribeiro, who tapped home at the back post after a flick on.<\/p>\n<p>The Italians equalised thanks to Alberto Paloschi, the Palma striker notching just after the half hour mark, before Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey grabbed the winner with a stunning bit of Premier League class. <\/p>\n<p>Ramsey played a few clever tricks on the edge of the box before superbly drilling the ball into the bottom corner to give the Welshman a deserved victory.<\/p>\n<p>The win takes Flynn&#8217;s men a massive ten points clear of group favourites Italy and to the top of Group 3 in the European U-21&#8217;s Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joined by MacDonald in the U-21&#8217;s squad were fellow Swans team-mates David Cornell, Casey Thomas and Ashley Richards. Brian Flynn&#8217;s men went ahead through Bristol City defender Christian Ribeiro, who tapped home at the back post after a flick on. The Italians equalised thanks to Alberto Paloschi, the Palma striker notching just after the half [&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-16682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682","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=16682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}