{"id":296013,"date":"2025-07-27T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296013\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:55:10","slug":"wales-begin-eurohockey-campaign-with-switzerland-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales begin EuroHockey campaign with Switzerland win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales men began their EuroHockey Championship II campaign with a 3-1 win over Switzerland in Lousada, Portugal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Pritchard and Rhys Bradshaw gave Wales an early lead in the first period, with Gareth Griffiths&#8217; penalty corner making it 3-0 by half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lukas Hengartner pulled a goal back for Switzerland but Wales held out. They face Scotland in their second game on Monday (17:30 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the women&#8217;s competition in Gniezno, Poland, Wales also faced Switzerland later on Sunday with captain Beth Bingham&#8217;s strike from the penalty spot enough to earn a 1-0 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales are next in action on Monday against Czech Republic (14:15 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales men began their EuroHockey Championship II campaign with a 3-1 win over Switzerland in Lousada, Portugal. Jack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-296013","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\/114925543491496673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296013","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=296013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}