{"id":1606,"date":"2014-02-09T04:03:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T04:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2014-02-09T05:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T05:09:49","slug":"1606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/1606\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli Ends Seedorf’s Unbeaten Run As Taarabt Celebrates Debut Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rafa Benitez’s\u00a0Napoli recorded their first victory in three games to bring an end to Clarence Seedorf”s\u00a0unbeaten run as new Milan manager.<\/p>\n

Gonzalo Higuain\u00a0grabbed an impressive brace and Gokhan Inler also got on the score sheet as Napoli bounced back from two consecutive defeats.<\/p>\n

January loan signing Adel Taarabt handed the visitors the lead on eight minutes when he dispossessed Faouzi Ghoulam\u00a0before bursting forward and producing a beautiful curled effort beyond the reach of Christian Abbiati.\u00a0The Moroccan sprinted towards the away bench to celebrate with coach Clarence Seedorf.<\/p>\n

But Milan\u2019s joy was short lived as, just three minutes later, Napoli were level when Inler saw his 30 yard effort curl into the back of the net after his shot took a deflection off Nigel de Jong.<\/p>\n

Napoli finally took the lead on 56 minutes through Higuain who lost his marker to glance Inler\u2019s delightful cross into the back of the net.<\/p>\n

But Higuain sealed the match seven minutes before time after Hamsik found substitute Jose Callejon with a through pass and he simply passed the ball across goal for Higuain to tap into the back of the net.<\/p>\n

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Rafa Benitez’s\u00a0Napoli recorded their first victory in three games to bring an end to Clarence Seedorf”s\u00a0unbeaten run as new Milan manager. Gonzalo Higuain\u00a0grabbed an impressive brace and Gokhan Inler also got on the score sheet as Napoli bounced back from two consecutive defeats. January loan signing Adel Taarabt handed the visitors the lead on eight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1607,"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\/1606"}],"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=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}