{"id":202523,"date":"2025-06-21T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202523\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:30:10","slug":"fih-nations-cup-wales-claim-fifth-after-edging-hosts-malaysia-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202523\/","title":{"rendered":"FIH Nations Cup: Wales claim fifth after edging hosts Malaysia 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales men came from a goal down to beat hosts Malaysia 2-1 in their final game of the FIH Nations Cup to finish fifth.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Syed Cholan opened the scoring for Malaysia in the second quarter, but Rhys Bradshaw levelled things in the third at the National Hockey Stadium in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A tight contest was decided late in the game when Gareth Furlong hit the winner for Wales, the score like Bradshaw&#8217;s earlier effort coming from a penalty corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the second successive game in which Wales had fought back to win, having come from 3-2 down against Japan to win 6-4 last time out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales will now prepare for their European Championships in Portugal in July, where the side will be looking to secure promotion to the A division of competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales men came from a goal down to beat hosts Malaysia 2-1 in their final game of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-202523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114721366069008002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}