{"id":306488,"date":"2025-12-09T07:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306488\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:07:16","slug":"mitchell-pleased-with-massive-result-in-victory-over-pau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306488\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell pleased with \u2018massive result\u2019 in victory over Pau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British &amp; Irish Lions scrum-half Alex Mitchell was proud of Northampton Saints\u2019 \u2018massive\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptonsaints.co.uk\/news\/match-report-section-paloise-27-35-saints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">27-35<\/a> victory away to Section Paloise in the opening round of the Investec Champions Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell proved influential in Northampton\u2019s win in Round 1, scoring one of Saints\u2019 five tries at Stade Municipal de Hameau before a crucial final score from George Hendy sealed a dramatic, first-ever victory in Pau.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The scrum-half\u2019s performance earned him the Player of the Match trophy on his 150th Club appearance and, despite a nervy end to Saints\u2019 European opener in France, it was an occasion that Mitchell enjoyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe managed to pull away at the end, it was a tough match,\u201d Mitchell explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe dug in, got a couple of tries in the second half, to come away from home and get five points here is pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very frustrating early on, but we said at half-time it was a huge positive that we were creating chances, we just weren&#8217;t finishing them off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew it would come in that second half; a few opportunities did come, and we did take them. It\u2019s obviously a massive result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British &amp; Irish Lions scrum-half Alex Mitchell was proud of Northampton Saints\u2019 \u2018massive\u2019 27-35 victory away to Section&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-306488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}