{"id":208436,"date":"2025-10-12T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208436\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T22:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:34:07","slug":"celtic-cruise-to-victory-over-motherwell-in-eight-goal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208436\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic cruise to victory over Motherwell in eight-goal thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic maintain pressure on Glasgow City at the top of the SWPL table with an emphatic 7-1 win over Motherwell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Motherwell held off Celtic for almost half an hour before an impressive bit of individual skill from Morgan Cross gave the hosts the advantage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Striker Saoirse Noonan and full-back Emma Lawton added to Celtic&#8217;s tally in the first half, marking a first goal of the season for Scotland defender Lawton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kelly Clark also netted her first of the season when she added Celtic&#8217;s fourth with just over 20 minutes to play. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cross followed up the captain&#8217;s goal with her second a minute later before Maria McAneny fired in Celtic&#8217;s sixth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saoirse Noonan got her second of the game on the 90th minute when she smashed home Amy Richardson&#8217;s cross. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The result leaves Celtic three points behind Glasgow City at the top of the SWPL while Motherwell fail to make up ground on the top five and are joint on points with Aberdeen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic maintain pressure on Glasgow City at the top of the SWPL table with an emphatic 7-1 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-208436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}