{"id":9516,"date":"2003-02-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-04T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=9516"},"modified":"2021-02-04T08:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T08:01:59","slug":"swansea-1-darlington-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2003\/02\/04\/swansea-1-darlington-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea 1 Darlington 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rock-bottom Swansea stretched their unbeaten run to three games with a well-deserved victory over Darlington at the Vetch Field.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nugent&#8217;s fourth goal in as many games since signing on loan from Leyton Orient ensured the Swans are now level on points with second-from-bottom Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Swansea started the first half the brighter, with Roberto Martinez carving open the first chance of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The on-loan Walsall midfielder won the ball on the halfway line and dribbled to the edge of the area before unleashing a fierce shot, which Andrew Collett did well to save.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the break Nugent bundled the ball home to give the Swans the lead against their North-East opponents.<\/p>\n<p>James Thomas wasted a perfect opportunity to extend Swansea&#8217;a lead after the break, but with the goal at his mercy the club&#8217;s top scorer headed wide.<\/p>\n<p>Darlington&#8217;s best chance game midway through the second half when Jamie Wood headed Ian Clark&#8217;s header off the line.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a nervous few minutes Swansea hung on to secure all three points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock-bottom Swansea stretched their unbeaten run to three games with a well-deserved victory over Darlington at the Vetch Field. Kevin Nugent&#8217;s fourth goal in as many games since signing on loan from Leyton Orient ensured the Swans are now level on points with second-from-bottom Boston. Swansea started the first half the brighter, with Roberto Martinez [&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-9516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9516","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=9516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}