{"id":438623,"date":"2025-09-20T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438623\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:28:10","slug":"para-lions-hit-six-in-epfa-nations-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438623\/","title":{"rendered":"Para Lions hit six in EPFA Nations Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        The England Powerchair team started the EPFA Nations Cup in Italy with victory over Scotland&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p><strong>The England Powerchair team made a strong start to their EPFA Nations Cup defence on Saturday morning, with a 6-0 win over Scotland in\u00a0Lignano Sabbiadoro.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adam McEvoy&#8217;s side played their first of two games, with a match against hosts Italy to follow later in the day (5.15pm BST), and won in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The Para Lions were 4-0 up by half time, with Dan McLellan (above) scoring all four with the first two coming from corners before the youngster finished off well after being picked out by a pass. His fourth came from a free-kick, before the fifth came after the break when he finished off a move from open play.<\/p>\n<p>And the final goal came from the penalty spot with Dylan Kelsall making it 6-0 to the Para Lions to round off an impressive start to the competition.<\/p>\n<p>All matches at the tournament are being <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FIPPS\/streams\" target=\"_blank\">streamed live by the EPFA, and can be watched here<\/a>, or you can see the action from today&#8217;s games in the video players below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The England Powerchair team started the EPFA Nations Cup in Italy with victory over Scotland&#13; The England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,148535,86452,393,148534,148530,148531,4884,2199,148532,14998,712,16,15,148533],"class_list":{"0":"post-438623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dan-mclellan","10":"tag-disability-football","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-england-6-0-scotland","13":"tag-england-powerchair-national-football-team","14":"tag-epfa-home-nations-2025","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-para-lions","18":"tag-reports","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wheelchair-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115236864639551165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438623","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=438623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}