{"id":1122,"date":"2014-01-28T22:57:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2014-01-28T23:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T23:34:03","slug":"sturridge-steals-the-show-as-liverpool-humiliates-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/uncategorised\/sturridge-steals-the-show-as-liverpool-humiliates-everton\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturridge Shows Off As Liverpool Humiliates Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge scored two and missed a penalty as the toffees humiliated Everton 4-0 in their 222nd merseyside derby Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>England skipper Steven\u00a0Gerrard&#8217;s header opened the scoring in the 21st minute and was followed by Sturridge&#8217;s two in quick succession with Luis \u00a0Suarez\u00a0scoring his 23rd of the season just after half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Everton dominated the early possession but it was the hosts creating the chances with Jordan Henderson, Sturridge and Suarez, twice, denied by goalkeeper Tim Howard.<\/p>\n<p>It was to prove a double blow for Everton as Barry&#8217;s attempts to re-engage with Gerrard at the corner saw him clatter into team-mate Romelu Lukaku, resulting in the striker being carried off on a stretcher.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez and Sturridge now have 36 Premier League goals between them and remain the most crucial factor in Liverpool\u00a0regaining their place among Europe&#8217;s elite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge scored two and missed a penalty as the toffees humiliated Everton 4-0 in their 222nd merseyside derby Tuesday. England skipper Steven\u00a0Gerrard&#8217;s header opened the scoring in the 21st minute and was followed by Sturridge&#8217;s two in quick succession with Luis \u00a0Suarez\u00a0scoring his 23rd of the season just after half-time. Everton dominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80,1],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}