{"id":551724,"date":"2026-03-21T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551724\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:33:12","slug":"port-vale-1-0-bolton-wanderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551724\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Vale 1-0 Bolton Wanderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Port Vale gave their slim survival chances a boost with a battling 1-0 win over promotion-chasing Bolton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George Hall&#8217;s first-half strike was enough to secure just a third home victory of the season to leave the Valiants 11 points adrift of 20th place with 10 games to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bolton defender Eoin Toal failed to get a shot away after getting the ball stuck between his feet in the opening seconds while Kyle Dempsey was off target with a dipping free-kick on six minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jordi Osei-Tutu saw a soft shot comfortably saved by Joe Gauci midway through the half as Bolton pressed for the opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the deadlock was broken 11 minutes before half-time when Hall latched onto Jaheim Headley&#8217;s ball and fired home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xavier Simons blazed over from the edge of the box just before half-time for Bolton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Garrity was just over before Martin Sherif saw two shots blocked as Vale pushed hard for a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Headley fired a shot wide after finding space down the left on 70 minutes and Ben Wain saw his effort saved deep into stoppage time as the cup kings held their nerve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Match report supplied by PA Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Vale gave their slim survival chances a boost with a battling 1-0 win over promotion-chasing Bolton. George&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-551724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551724","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=551724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}