{"id":3000,"date":"2014-03-23T17:54:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:40:34","slug":"inter-suffer-another-setback-after-losing-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/inter-suffer-another-setback-after-losing-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Suffer Another Setback After Losing At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Giacomo Bonaventura punished Mauro Icardi&#8217;s failure to grab Inter Milan all three points at San Siro by doing so himself for upwardly-mobile Atalanta.<\/p>\n<p>Icardi equalised almost immediately after Bonaventura opened the scoring shortly before half-time but the Argentinian shot wide of an open goal with two minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Bonaventura duly headed home the winner and it finished 2-1 as Atalanta registered a fourth straight victory that moved them into ninth place in the Serie A table.<\/p>\n<p>After struggling for results over the festive period Inter had stabilised and were looking to take fourth place with a third straight win.<\/p>\n<p>In the 35th minute, Atalanta unlocked the game when Bonaventura smashed past the flailing Handanovic from outside of the box.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts were riled and responded in the best possible way.<\/p>\n<p>From the restart, Icardi danced straight into the area, skipped over the challenge Mario Yepes and slipped the ball into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>With winning runs to be extended and targets to be reached over the season run-in, neither club was prepared to settle for the draw and the second half was suitably frenetic.<\/p>\n<p>The moment that may give Inter nightmares for some time to come arrived in the 88th minute.<\/p>\n<p>When Jonathan slipped the ball into Atalanta&#8217;s six-yard box, it seemed nothing could stop Icardi from slotting home a dramatic winner.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentinian inexplicably blasted wide, however, and he was punished almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>On the stroke of full-time, Handanovic dropped to his knees after watching Bonaventura nod home his second goal, this time from a Brienza free-kick.<\/p>\n<p>It was Inter&#8217;s first home defeat since October 5 and suddenly a return to Europe seemed much further away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sky<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giacomo Bonaventura punished Mauro Icardi&#8217;s failure to grab Inter Milan all three points at San Siro by doing so himself for upwardly-mobile Atalanta. Icardi equalised almost immediately after Bonaventura opened the scoring shortly before half-time but the Argentinian shot wide of an open goal with two minutes remaining. Bonaventura duly headed home the winner and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1291,"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\/3000"}],"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=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}