{"id":1863,"date":"2014-02-15T19:07:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2014-02-15T19:07:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:07:24","slug":"holder-wigan-and-sunderland-ease-through-to-fa-cup-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/holder-wigan-and-sunderland-ease-through-to-fa-cup-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder Wigan And Sunderland Ease Through To FA Cup Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

FA Cup holders Wigan kept up the defence of their crown by knocking Premier League Cardiff out to move into the last eight.<\/p>\n

Chris McCann turned in a low cross to put the Championship side ahead before Fraizer Campbell lashed in a leveller.<\/p>\n

Midfielder Ben Watson restored Wigan’s lead before half-time with a 25-yard piledriver following a free-kick.<\/p>\n

Cardiff’s Juan Cala was denied by a post while Craig Noone had a late shot saved as the hosts bowed out.<\/p>\n

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Gus Poyet’s Sunderla, who have already reached the Capital One Cup final continued their cup success this season after beating Southampton 1-0 to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Sunderland’s win came in front of only 16,777 fans at the Stadium of Light through\u00a0Craig Gardner’s\u00a025-yard effort four minutes after the break.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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FA Cup holders Wigan kept up the defence of their crown by knocking Premier League Cardiff out to move into the last eight. Chris McCann turned in a low cross to put the Championship side ahead before Fraizer Campbell lashed in a leveller. Midfielder Ben Watson restored Wigan’s lead before half-time with a 25-yard piledriver […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"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=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}