{"id":2363,"date":"2014-03-03T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2014-03-03T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T06:03:26","slug":"soldados-first-goal-in-two-months-keeps-spurs-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/soldados-first-goal-in-two-months-keeps-spurs-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldado&#8217;s First Goal In Two Months Keeps Spurs Going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham kept up their slim hopes of Champions League football next season thanks to Roberto Soldado&#8217;s first goal in more than two months in a 1-0 win over relegation-threatened Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>The goal came just before the half-hour mark when Emmanuel Adebayor found the striker in the box with a slick pass and Soldado took the ball beautifully in his stride before calmly finishing into the far corner.<\/p>\n<p>It was his first Premier League goal at White Hart Lane from open play and his first in nine games.<\/p>\n<p>The struggling Bluebirds should have levelled soon after when Steven Caulker headed Craig Bellamy&#8217;s corner against the crossbar from a couple of yards out with Hugo Lloris rooted to his line.<\/p>\n<p>It was the north Londoners&#8217; fourth win in five Premier League home matches and victory also helped them cut the gap on fourth-placed Manchester City to four points.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff&#8217;s seventh consecutive league defeat on the road leaves them one point and one place off the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tottenham kept up their slim hopes of Champions League football next season thanks to Roberto Soldado&#8217;s first goal in more than two months in a 1-0 win over relegation-threatened Cardiff. The goal came just before the half-hour mark when Emmanuel Adebayor found the striker in the box with a slick pass and Soldado took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2364,"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\/2363"}],"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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}