{"id":2554,"date":"2014-03-10T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T06:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2014-03-10T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T06:04:22","slug":"hull-hammer-sunderland-to-reach-fa-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/hull-hammer-sunderland-to-reach-fa-cup-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull Hammer Sunderland To Reach FA Cup Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;\n<p>Hull City secured a place in the FA Cup semi-finals for only the second time following a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Sunderland at the KC Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Bruce&#8217;s side missed a first-half penalty through Sone Aluko before goals from Curtis Davies, Sunderland old boy David Meyler and Matty Fryatt in the space of nine second-half minutes booked the Tigers&#8217; trip to Wembley next month when they will face League One club Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland failed to make it two Wembley appearances this season after last weekend&#8217;s beaten Capital One Cup finalists struggled to offer a threat against their former manager&#8217;s current club.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland boss Gus Poyet will at least now be able to focus on his side&#8217;s battle to stay in the top flight after the distraction of their knockout heroics, which saw them lose 3-1 to Manchester City in the Capital One Cup final at Wembley last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguayan made six changes to his final line-up, including a rare start for Argentinian striker Ignacio Scocco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hull City secured a place in the FA Cup semi-finals for only the second time following a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Sunderland at the KC Stadium. Steve Bruce&#8217;s side missed a first-half penalty through Sone Aluko before goals from Curtis Davies, Sunderland old boy David Meyler and Matty Fryatt in the space of nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2556,"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\/2554"}],"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=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}