{"id":3589,"date":"2014-04-17T05:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T05:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2014-04-17T05:40:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T05:40:32","slug":"liverpool-optimistic-about-sturridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/liverpool-optimistic-about-sturridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Optimistic About Sturridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p itemprop=\"description\"><strong>Liverpool are optimistic striker Daniel Sturridge will be fit for this weekend&#8217;s game against Norwich.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old was taken off after 66 minutes of the Reds&#8217; 3-2 win over Manchester City on Sunday with a suspected hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>A scan has shown that the injury is not too serious and there is a chance Sturridge will be available for the trip to Carrow Road.<\/p>\n<p>A report on the club&#8217;s official website read: &#8220;A small strain was detected following a scan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 24-year-old will now undergo a treatment programme in order to try and be available for the trip to Carrow Road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sturridge has scored 23 goals this season, including 20 in the league, to help Liverpool to the top of the table with four games left to play.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds are two points clear of Chelsea and know that victories in their remaining games will secure a first title since 1990.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are optimistic striker Daniel Sturridge will be fit for this weekend&#8217;s game against Norwich. The 24-year-old was taken off after 66 minutes of the Reds&#8217; 3-2 win over Manchester City on Sunday with a suspected hamstring injury. A scan has shown that the injury is not too serious and there is a chance Sturridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3590,"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\/3589"}],"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=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}