{"id":1876,"date":"2014-02-15T21:04:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2014-02-15T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T23:23:32","slug":"dortmund-maintain-their-hopes-of-top-four-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/dortmund-maintain-their-hopes-of-top-four-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Dortmund Maintain Their Hopes Of Top-Four Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Third-placed Borussia Dortmund maintained their hopes of a top-four finish with an accomplished 4-0 win against Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, while Hamburger SV slipped into full crisis mode by losing 4-2 at bottom side Eintracht Braunschweig.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund was playing Frankfurt for the second time in a week after its 1-0 German Cup quarterfinal win over the same opponent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Henrikh Mkhitaryan dispossessed Frankfurt defender Sebastian Jung and then waited before playing the perfect pass through four Frankfurt defenders for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to open the scoring in the 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Aubameyang got his second goal 11 minutes later after a corner, and Robert Lewandowski converted a penalty to make it 3-0 two minutes after the break. It was the Polish striker&#8217;s first goal against Frankfurt and his 14th of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Milos Jojic scored just seconds after coming on for his Bundesliga debut to complete the scoring in the 68th.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Third-placed Borussia Dortmund maintained their hopes of a top-four finish with an accomplished 4-0 win against Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, while Hamburger SV slipped into full crisis mode by losing 4-2 at bottom side Eintracht Braunschweig. Dortmund was playing Frankfurt for the second time in a week after its 1-0 German Cup quarterfinal win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876"}],"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=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}