{"id":8784,"date":"2026-02-16T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=8784"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:36:13","slug":"macclesfield-0-1-brentford-premier-league-side-edge-past-non-league-macclesfield-thanks-to-second-half-own-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=8784","title":{"rendered":"Macclesfield 0-1 Brentford: Premier League side edge past non-league Macclesfield thanks to second-half own goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Macclesfield were out to prove lightning could strike twice as they aimed to inflict the same embarrassment on Premier League high-fliers Brentford as they had on holders Palace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And for the first half at least, John Rooney&#8217;s side looked like they might produce another classic FA Cup giant-killing as they were the more cohesive, energetic team and posed far more threat than their illustrious opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Macclesfield captain Paul Dawson, a goal hero against Palace, held his head in anguish as his 20-yard drive flew just wide, while Luke Duffy was also left frustrated as he fired over from a promising position on the edge of the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brentford were slightly better after the break while Macclesfield&#8217;s first-half exertions inevitably took their toll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It still took that inadvertent intervention from Heathcote to settle this tight tie, and even after going a goal down and clearly exhausted, Macclesfield still gave Brentford anxious moments before receiving a rousing ovation on the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was defeat for Macclesfield &#8211; but defeat with great pride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macclesfield were out to prove lightning could strike twice as they aimed to inflict the same embarrassment on Premier League high-fliers Brentford as they had on holders Palace. And for the first half at least, John Rooney&#8217;s side looked like they might produce another classic FA Cup giant-killing as they were the more cohesive, energetic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}