{"id":375879,"date":"2025-08-26T20:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375879\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:57:17","slug":"efl-trophy-wins-for-shrewsbury-town-bristol-rovers-and-manchester-city-u21s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375879\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Trophy: Wins for Shrewsbury Town, Bristol Rovers and Manchester City U21s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tommy McDermott&#8217;s cracking strike hauled League Two Shrewsbury level, John Marquis put them ahead in the second half and Will Boyle then headed in Sam Clucas&#8217; corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Rovers, meanwhile, were outclassed by Spurs early on, with Tynan Thompson, Luca Williams-Barnett and Yusuf Akhamrich scoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts responded with goals from Ellis Harrison and Fabrizio Cavegn but Thompson netted again to make it 4-2, which looked like securing the win for Spurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Archer was then red-carded for taking out Ryan Howley, who was through on goal, and Isaac Hutchinson scored with a free-kick before Cavegn equalised with his second goal of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rovers then won 5-4 on penalties, with keeper Brad Young clinching their victory by saving James Rowswell&#8217;s spot-kick, having also denied Calum Logan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a much more comfortable evening for Manchester City&#8217;s youngsters at Oldham, where Mahamadou Sangare and Ashton Muir both scored twice and Justin Oboavwoduo also netted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Latics&#8217; goal, which made it 3-1, was a penalty by Luke Hannant after Kane Drummond had been fouled by Femi Fapetu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy McDermott&#8217;s cracking strike hauled League Two Shrewsbury level, John Marquis put them ahead in the second half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-375879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115097072144887694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375879","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=375879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}