{"id":3635,"date":"2014-04-19T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2014-04-19T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T19:12:39","slug":"chelseas-tittle-hopes-fades-as-liverpool-player-scores-record-goal-for-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/chelseas-tittle-hopes-fades-as-liverpool-player-scores-record-goal-for-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s Tittle Hopes Fades As Liverpool Player Scores Record Goal For Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A late late penalty by a player on loan from Liverpool, Fabio Borini gave Sunderland\u00a0a 2-1 victory at Chelsea,\u00a0giving Brendan Rodgers&#8217; side\u00a0a brilliant chance of their first Premier League title.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea scored first with Samuel Eto&#8217;o&#8217;s\u00a0volley on 12 minutes, and six minutes later Sunderland equalised through Connor Wickham.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy followed when Ramires\u00a0was stopped from heading into an empty net when Sebastian Larson\u00a0barged into him. Ramires retaliated seconds later, going unpunished for an elbow into Sebastian Larsson\u2019s face. Ramires will surely be punished retrospectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Chelsea plainly missed Eden Hazard as they struggled to make a breakthrough. Eto\u2019o sent a great opportunity just wide of the post, and Ba slipped when it was easier to score.<\/p>\n<p>On 82 minutes, Borini converted a penalty after Jozy Altidore was brought down by Cesar Azpilicueta. A minute later Rui Faria was off for sustained invective aimed at Mike Dean. Liverpool are now clear favourites for the Premier League; Sunderland are still bottom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A late late penalty by a player on loan from Liverpool, Fabio Borini gave Sunderland\u00a0a 2-1 victory at Chelsea,\u00a0giving Brendan Rodgers&#8217; side\u00a0a brilliant chance of their first Premier League title. Chelsea scored first with Samuel Eto&#8217;o&#8217;s\u00a0volley on 12 minutes, and six minutes later Sunderland equalised through Connor Wickham. Controversy followed when Ramires\u00a0was stopped from heading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3636,"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\/3635"}],"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=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}