{"id":8926,"date":"2024-09-07T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/?p=8926"},"modified":"2024-09-08T00:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T23:22:01","slug":"cardiff-city-rue-missed-chances-in-defeat-to-zfk-ljuboten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/news\/cardiff-city-rue-missed-chances-in-defeat-to-zfk-ljuboten\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City rue missed chances in defeat to ZFK Ljuboten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Cardiff-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Cardiff-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Cardiff-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Cardiff-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Cardiff.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cardiff City were defeated 2-0 by ZFK Ljuboten of North Macedonia in their final game of this season\u2019s UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been on the back foot for large parts of their last game against FC Twente, the Bluebirds started this game well and created plenty of chances. Lisa Owen\u2019s cross found summer signing Laura Curnock, but she saw her strike saved. Nieve Jenkins and Molly Kehoe were next to have attempts on goal, but again, the Ljuboten keeper was on hand to deny them both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City did manage to get a shot away that beat the keeper, but Curnock\u2019s shot whistled past the post, as Iain Darbyshire\u2019s side pushed for that crucial opening goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, they were given a sucker punch before the break, as Hava Mustafa put Ljuboten ahead. A strong first half from the reigning Genero Adran Premier champions, but they found themselves behind at half-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like in the first period, the Bluebirds started the second on top. Substitute Fiona Barry got a strike away, but not for the first time this afternoon, it was saved by the keeper. City kept ramping the pressure up. In the space of two minutes, the keeper saved twice from Curnock, while Ffion Price fired just over the bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With time running out, Cardiff started pushing players forward at will. Shannon Evans headed over the bar, while yet again, Curnock\u2019s attempt was met with a save from the goalkeeper. And how City would rue their missed chances, as in the second minute of added time, Mustafa added her and Ljuboten\u2019s second to seal the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A strong display from the Welsh champions, who dominated for large parts of the game, but just couldn\u2019t find a way through. The Bluebirds&#8217; focus will now turn to the new Genero Adran Premier season, which they begin away to Wrexham on Sunday 15 September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff City were defeated 2-0 by ZFK Ljuboten of North Macedonia in their final game of this season\u2019s UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":8930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ftr_img_focal":{"x":0.43,"y":0.14},"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"class_list":["post-8926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adran-premier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8931,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions\/8931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}