{"id":1036,"date":"2014-01-27T00:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2014-01-27T00:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:36:22","slug":"ivory-coast-gervinho-in-hot-form-striker-scores-1-and-makes-another-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/ivory-coast-gervinho-in-hot-form-striker-scores-1-and-makes-another-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast Gervinho In Hot Form. Striker Scores 1 And Makes Another Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"dart_300x250_bts_2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-805555369937792-6\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7675\/MIA.site_miamiherald\/Sports\/Soccer_5__container__\">\n<div id=\"adx_script_329200\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Ivory Coast forward Gervinho set up one goal and scored another as Roma moved within six points of Serie A leader Juventus with a 3-1 victory at Hellas Verona on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Gervinho provided the cross for Adem Ljajic&#8217;s goal in the 45th minute then scored himself on the hour mark after Iceland international Emil Hallfredsson had equalized in the 49th.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere Sunday,\u00a0AC Milan came back with two late goals for a 2-1 win at Cagliari.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Sau\u00a0put\u00a0Cagliari ahead in the 28th, Mario Balotelli equalized with a free kick in the 87th and substitute Giampaolo Pazzini scored the winner with a header in the 89th.<\/p>\n<p>Roma&#8217;s 37-year-old captain Francesco Totti added a penalty in the 82nd.<\/p>\n<p>Gianluigi Buffon was sent off and Juventus was held to a 1-1 draw at Lazio on Saturday, ending the two-time defending champion&#8217;s 12-match winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, Napoli drew 1-1 at home with Chievo Verona.<\/p>\n<p>In other matches, it was: Livorno 3, Sassuolo 1; Parma 1, Udinese 0; Sampdoria 1, Bologna 1; and Torino 1, Atalanta 0.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast forward Gervinho set up one goal and scored another as Roma moved within six points of Serie A leader Juventus with a 3-1 victory at Hellas Verona on Sunday. Gervinho provided the cross for Adem Ljajic&#8217;s goal in the 45th minute then scored himself on the hour mark after Iceland international Emil Hallfredsson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,82],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}