{"id":8642,"date":"2025-03-18T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:06:35","slug":"match-report-university-of-kent-staff-fc-2-4-southeastern-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/match-report-university-of-kent-staff-fc-2-4-southeastern-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: University of Kent Staff FC 2 &#8211; 4 Southeastern Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Match Report: University of Kent Staff FC 2 &#8211; 4 Southeastern Trains<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 6PM KO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After recording four consecutive wins in the Recreational Cup, the University of Kent Staff aimed to make it five under the Park Wood floodlights.<\/p>\n<p>Having faced them in the group stages of last year\u2019s Recreational Cup, Southeastern Trains were familiar opponents to Kent. On that occasion Kent cruised to a comfortable 2-0 win, but this time round posed a tougher challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The management team opted for their trusted 4-2-3-1 formation with wide midfielders James Thompson and Julien providing support for lone frontman Lee Wilson. A congratulations must go to Callum who was selected to make his debut in goal for the team.<\/p>\n<p>On a cold Wednesday evening, Kent fought hard in the opening stages against a spirited Southeastern Trains side. In an end-to-end match, goal machine Julien scored a brace to level the game at 2-2. Midfield duo James Blackwell and Sam Beard can be credited with the assists, having shown great vision from midfield.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half Kent pushed forward in search of a winner, but their hopes of making it five wins in a row were derailed as Southeastern trains scored twice in the latter stages.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the defeat, Kent showed great spirit and will aim get their season back on track in their next Recreational Cup group match against Weald Hamlet.<\/p>\n<p>Up the Staff FC! \u26bd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Report: University of Kent Staff FC 2 &#8211; 4 Southeastern Trains Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 6PM KO After recording four consecutive wins in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/match-report-university-of-kent-staff-fc-2-4-southeastern-trains\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67692,"featured_media":8658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[149511,722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8643,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions\/8643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}