{"id":3228,"date":"2014-04-02T02:49:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2014-04-02T02:49:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:49:25","slug":"diegos-stunning-goal-gives-atletico-an-edge-over-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/diegos-stunning-goal-gives-atletico-an-edge-over-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego&#8217;s Stunning Goal Gives Atletico An Edge Over Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mainBodyArea\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Atletico Madrid striker Diego stunned Barcelona in the all-Spanish quarter-final at the Nou Camp\u00a0with a 30-yard stunner to give the visitors\u00a0the edge after the first leg.<\/p>\n<p>The forward came on when Diego Costa &#8211; an injury worry before the game &#8211; was forced off after just 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But replacement Diego more than made up for the loss of Atletico&#8217;s leading scorer with his wonder goal 11 minutes after half-time.<\/p>\n<p>The sub smashed an unstoppable, swerving shot from well outside the area that gave Barca keeper Pinto Colorado no chance.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar grabbed the equaliser 15 minutes, running on to Andreas Iniesta\u2019s defence-splitting pass and curling home his shot, leaving the tie delicately poised ahead of next week&#8217;s second leg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid striker Diego stunned Barcelona in the all-Spanish quarter-final at the Nou Camp\u00a0with a 30-yard stunner to give the visitors\u00a0the edge after the first leg. The forward came on when Diego Costa &#8211; an injury worry before the game &#8211; was forced off after just 30 minutes. But replacement Diego more than made up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228"}],"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=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}