{"id":42843,"date":"2021-05-30T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=42843"},"modified":"2021-05-30T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T19:15:25","slug":"championes-swansea-city-ladies-secure-league-and-cup-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2021\/05\/30\/championes-swansea-city-ladies-secure-league-and-cup-double\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAMPIONES! &#8211; Swansea City Ladies secure league and cup double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our congratulations go this afternoon to the Swansea City Ladies team who secured a league and cup double thanks to a 0-0 draw against Abergavenny that gave them the point they needed to pip Cardiff Met to the league title.<\/p>\n<p>The win came just a few days after they won the cup with a 4-1 win over Cardiff City and completes a superb season for Colin Staples&#8217; side who had to sit on the sidelines and watch for months on end as the pandemic bought a temporary halt to the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans were even able to afford the luxury of a missed penalty from Emma Beynon in the second half and could consider themselves unlucky on more than one occasion as they looked to secure a win as well as the title.<\/p>\n<p>The result though ensured an unbeaten league campaign and with just one goal conceded in our 16 encounters a fantastic achievement for the side who rightly are holding the crown as the finest team in Wales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swansea City defender Shaunna Jenkins told Clwb Pel-Droed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it\u2019s been a very tough season for everyone with COVID. We had a big break around Christmas time and with fixtures changing, it\u2019s been hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past three weeks, we\u2019ve had six games, but we dug deep as a team and got through it together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thoroughly deserved the league. Everyone knows how good we are as a team. We showed that last season and showed it again this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swansea City Ladies:\u00a0<\/strong>Claire Skinner, Alicia Powe (C), Shaunna Jenkins, Ellie Lake, Emma Benyon, Kelly Adams, Ria Hughes, Katy Hosford, Stacey John-Davis, Laura Davies (Chloe Chivers 62\u2019), Tija Richardson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abergavenny Women:<\/strong>\u00a0Zara Pernalete, Megan Jones, Elena Scrivens, Jess Bennett, Olivia Barnes (Caitlin Davies 68\u2019), Sian Bull, Ceri Hudson (C), Lyndsey Davies, Eliza Atkins (Ffion David 79\u2019), Lauren Boyd, Amy Williams<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/E2phGyJWEAIJ1Pa?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1364\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swansea City Ladies &#8211; League and Cup winners 2020\/21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our congratulations go this afternoon to the Swansea City Ladies team who secured a league and cup double thanks to a 0-0 draw against Abergavenny that gave them the point they needed to pip Cardiff Met to the league title. The win came just a few days after they won the cup with a 4-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,301,203,302,297],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-42843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-swansea-city-ladies","category-opinion","category-reports-swansea-city-ladies","category-swansea-city-ladies","tag-20-21-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}