{"id":2331,"date":"2014-03-02T19:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2014-03-02T19:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T19:22:46","slug":"city-stage-a-stunning-comeback-to-win-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/city-stage-a-stunning-comeback-to-win-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"City Stage A Stunning Comeback To Win Capital One Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester City produced a stunning comeback as they beat Sunderland 3-1 to lift the Capital One Cup at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland threatened a major shock when Fabio Borini gave them a half-time lead with a superb solo effort.<\/p>\n<p>Toure cancelled out Borini&#8217;s opener with a sublime effort from 30 yards out and less than a minute later Nasri broke Sunderland hearts with another brilliant finish.<\/p>\n<p>City continued to push forward in search of a third goal and they had claims for a penalty waved away just before the hour mark when Kolarov went down in the box under a challenge from Phil Bardsley.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland refused to lie down and substitute Steven Fletcher had a sight of goal on 72 minutes when Jack Colback teed him inside the box, but his half volley was straight at Pantilimon.<\/p>\n<p>City almost grabbed a third goal nine minutes from time when Kompany got on the end of a corner from Nasri and was unlucky to see his volley fall the wrong side of the near post.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher wasted a great opening a minute from time when the ball dropped to him inside the box, but his first touch let him down the chance went begging.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland were made to pay for that miss as City caught them on the break and Toure passed for Navas to score and seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City produced a stunning comeback as they beat Sunderland 3-1 to lift the Capital One Cup at Wembley. Sunderland threatened a major shock when Fabio Borini gave them a half-time lead with a superb solo effort. Toure cancelled out Borini&#8217;s opener with a sublime effort from 30 yards out and less than a minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331"}],"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=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}