{"id":6063,"date":"2021-05-14T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2021-05-14T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:37:25","slug":"match-preview-stretford-paddock-fc-vs-mellor-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/news\/match-preview-stretford-paddock-fc-vs-mellor-firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview: Mellor Firsts vs Stretford Paddock FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Parker<\/p>\n<div>Paddock travel to Wood Lane Marple this weekend as they face off against their toughest opponents so far in the Rhodes Cup \u2013 Mellor Firsts. A win would see Paddock progress into the semi-finals and eliminate one of, if not their biggest competition for the trophy. After three wins and three clean sheets in a row, the team is on a real high and will fancy their chances of facing up to the task.<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6064\" style=\"width: 1380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6064 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/isaac-buckl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1380\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/isaac-buckl.jpg 1380w, https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/isaac-buckl-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/isaac-buckl-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/isaac-buckl-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/isaac-buckl-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1380px) 100vw, 1380px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IB finding the net against Abacus Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Howson knows this will be a great test for the players, but believes they can do the job: \u201cI think this is one of the absolute biggest tests we could\u2019ve come up against, I think I\u2019d firmly put Paddock as the underdog in this fixture and that\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve said that in a while. We\u2019re coming up against a team that had a flawless record in the league. Last weekend they won 8-0, they\u2019ve had a very, very strong season to date and I think they have to be considered favourites not just for our game but favourites for the cup in total.<\/p>\n<div>So, I\u2019m excited to match us up against them, I want to see what the standard of this entire league system is. I want us to be a Premier League team as soon as humanely possible, so I want to see what the top of that tree looks like and what the standard is, and obviously measure up how far of it we are.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>The game kicks off at 2pm<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPaddockFC\">@SPaddockFC<\/a> on Twitter for live-match updates and subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOfN8RocOxUmvEBoaBIi18g\">YouTube channel<\/a> for highlights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S2XcmnaakBM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Parker Paddock travel to Wood Lane Marple this weekend as they face off against their toughest opponents so far in the Rhodes Cup \u2013 Mellor Firsts. A win would see Paddock progress into the semi-finals and eliminate one of, if not their biggest competition for the trophy. After three wins and three clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}