{"id":1939,"date":"2014-02-17T00:33:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2014-02-17T00:36:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T00:36:57","slug":"1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/1939\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Scores As Juventus Maintains Top Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghana international\u00a0Kwadwo Asamoah scored as Juventus cruised to a 3-1 win over Chievo to retain their nine-point lead at the top of serie A.<\/p>\n

Asamoah and Marchisio gave the Bianconeri a comfortable lead at the break, but a bizarre own goal from Martin Caceres gave the visitors hope.<\/p>\n

Fernando Llorente settled Juve’s nerves, however, to ensure a return to winning ways after a draw at Hellas Verona.<\/p>\n

In another game, Roma kept pace with a 3-0 win over a Sampdoria side who finished the night down to 10 men.<\/p>\n

Mattia Destro scored twice, either side of a Miralem Pjanic free-kick, as Roma overpowered the visitors.<\/p>\n

And things got worse for Samp late on as Daniele Gastaldello saw a second yellow card for a careless lunge in the direction of Kevin Strootman.<\/p>\n

Napoli are four points back thanks to a third win a week – a 2-0 victory at Sassuolo.<\/p>\n

Blerim Dzemaili and Lorenzo Insigne scored the goals for Rafael Benitez’s men, who beat AC Milan 3-1 and Roma 3-0 over the past seven days and appear to have hit form ahead of their trip to Swansea in the Europa League on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Lazio suffered their first defeat in six games and their first under coach Edy Reja as they went down to a surprise 3-1 defeat against Catania.<\/p>\n

The relegation-threatened Sicilian outfit ended a run of three straight draws to ease the pressure on coach Rolando Maran.<\/p>\n

\u00a0juventus retain lead<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghana international\u00a0Kwadwo Asamoah scored as Juventus cruised to a 3-1 win over Chievo to retain their nine-point lead at the top of serie A. Asamoah and Marchisio gave the Bianconeri a comfortable lead at the break, but a bizarre own goal from Martin Caceres gave the visitors hope. Fernando Llorente settled Juve’s nerves, however, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940,"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\/1939"}],"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=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}