{"id":18377,"date":"2011-08-06T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18377"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"graham-goal-seals-swans-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/08\/06\/graham-goal-seals-swans-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Goal Seals Swans Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League newcomers Swansea City completed their preparations with victory over Real Betis with Danny Graham sealing the win with his first goal for the club.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans&#8217; &pound;3.5m record signing turned superbly from an Angel Rangel ball to loft the ball in. Betis threatened through the pace of Ecuador&#8217;s Jefferson Montero. But Brendan Rodgers&#8217; side dealt with that threat. Scott Sinclair was denied a great start after Stephen Dobbie found him only for Betis goalkeeper Casto Barriga to tip away the effort. Nathan Dyer and Rangel set up a chance from which Dobbie could have put the hosts into the lead, but he fired over.<\/p>\n<p>Good defending prevented Graham tapping home and the Swans were fortunate when keeper Jose Moreira recovered to stop the ball rolling over the line after he spilled Iriney Santos&#8217; shot. Moreira showed more suspect handling from a Sergio shot sand Casto tipped an Alan Tate header over on half-time. Portuguese keeper Moreira was replaced at the interval by German trialist Gerhard Tremmel and Wayne Routledge got his first outing since joining from Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>Tremmel made two good saves from Jorge Vida and Graham&#8217;s winner came in the 63rd minute as he turned brilliantly to chip over Casto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League newcomers Swansea City completed their preparations with victory over Real Betis with Danny Graham sealing the win with his first goal for the club. The Swans&#8217; &pound;3.5m record signing turned superbly from an Angel Rangel ball to loft the ball in. Betis threatened through the pace of Ecuador&#8217;s Jefferson Montero. But Brendan Rodgers&#8217; [&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-18377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377","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=18377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}