{"id":2969,"date":"2014-03-23T01:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T01:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2014-03-23T01:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T01:45:20","slug":"rooneys-brace-hurt-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/rooneys-brace-hurt-west-ham\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooney&#8217;s Brace Hurt West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Two goals from Wayne Rooney, including a wonder strike from just inside the West Ham half, secured Manchester United a 2-0 victory at Upton Park.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to league action after progressing to the Champions League quarter-finals with victory against Olympiakos, the England international netted twice as David Moyes&#8217; men proved Wednesday&#8217;s result was no flash in the pan.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney&#8217;s second saw him move onto 212 goals and usurp Jack Rowley as the third highest goalscorer in United&#8217;s history, but it was his first just eight minutes into the win that will live long in the memory.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old produced a moment of magic, sending the ball sailing over Adrian in a goal similar in audacity and skill to David Beckham&#8217;s wonder strike at Wimbledon in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney&#8217;s display was certainly a timely shot in the arm for United, with Robin van Persie facing up to six weeks out with a sprained knee.<\/p>\n<p>His enforced absence was one of the six changes from the midweek win over Olympiakos, with the visitors impressing from the outset in east London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two goals from Wayne Rooney, including a wonder strike from just inside the West Ham half, secured Manchester United a 2-0 victory at Upton Park. Returning to league action after progressing to the Champions League quarter-finals with victory against Olympiakos, the England international netted twice as David Moyes&#8217; men proved Wednesday&#8217;s result was no flash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/2969"}],"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=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}