{"id":355472,"date":"2021-05-23T12:20:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=355472"},"modified":"2021-05-23T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:40:35","slug":"brentford-to-battle-swansea-for-last-premier-league-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=355472","title":{"rendered":"Brentford to battle Swansea for last Premier League spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">This year\u2019s Championship play-off will be played between Swansea and Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>Swansea were held to a 1-1 draw by Barnsley on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Welsh club had defeated their opponents 1-0 in the first leg of the semi-final tie.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Grimes scored in the 39th minute, before Cauley Woodrow levelled for the visitors in the 71st minute to set up a frantic finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans, who finished fourth in the Championship, last played in the top flight in 2017\/2018.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, Brentford fought back from one goal down to beat 10-man Bournemouth 3-1 in the second leg and advanced 3-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The Championship playoff final will be played on May 29.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Championship play-off will be played between Swansea and Brentford. Swansea were held to a 1-1 draw by Barnsley on Saturday. However, the Welsh club had defeated their opponents 1-0 in the first leg of the semi-final tie. Matt Grimes scored in the 39th minute, before Cauley Woodrow levelled for the visitors in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,12112,9142],"class_list":["post-355472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-swansea","tag-wayne-rooney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}