{"id":339480,"date":"2025-08-12T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339480\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:38:10","slug":"team-news-u21s-vs-boston-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339480\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News: U21s vs Boston United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Gardner has named his side to face Boston United in this evening\u2019s National League Cup group stage clash.<\/p>\n<p>The Whites go into the encounter as reigning champions of the competitions and call upon Rory Mahady, Rhys Chadwick and Harry Gray following the trio\u2019s pre-season spent with the first team. <\/p>\n<p>New signing Louis Enahoro-Marcus is involved in the heart of defence, behind Alfie Cresswell who skippers the side, sitting in midfield alongside Oliver Pickles.<\/p>\n<p>Regulars from last campaign\u2019s U18s Jacob Render and Devon Brockie support Gray in the forward line.<\/p>\n<p>Club legend Jonny Howson settles for a place on the bench after it was announced he has returned to the Whites in a player-coach role.<\/p>\n<p>The full side reads: Mahady (GK), Firth, Bird, Cresswell (C), Lopata-White, Enahoro-Marcus, Chadwick, Pickles, Gray, Render, Brockie. Subs: Ombang (GK), White, Dudley, Lienou, Pirie, Howson.<\/p>\n<p>Boston: Lovett (GK), Grist, Teale, Sloggett (C), Hill, John-Lewis, Hiwula, Lankshear, Richards, Raikhy, Cropper. Subs: Jones (GK), Mills, Coyle, Donnelly, Norkett, Ging, Bradley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Gardner has named his side to face Boston United in this evening\u2019s National League Cup group stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-339480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115017961108192814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339480","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=339480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}