{"id":419,"date":"2014-01-13T05:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=419"},"modified":"2014-01-13T05:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T05:07:27","slug":"suarez-hails-sturridges-returns-as-duo-demolish-hard-fighting-stoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/suarez-hails-sturridges-returns-as-duo-demolish-hard-fighting-stoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Suarez Hails Sturridge\u2019s Returns As Duo Demolish Stoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b>Luis Suarez hailed his reunion with Daniel Sturridge after the duo combined to devastating effect, helping Liverpool earn a 5-3 victory at Stoke City on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sturridge&#8217;s first appearance since November 23 due to an ankle injury was instrumental, as he came off the bench to set Suarez up for his 22nd goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The England international then got in on the act by applying a neat finish at the death to wrap up maximum points for the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course it is important [to have Sturridge back] because he is a great player and he helps the team,&#8221; said Suarez. &#8220;It&#8217;s a long time that we played without him, but now he is back we are so happy.&#8221;\/ Liverpool.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Suarez hailed his reunion with Daniel Sturridge after the duo combined to devastating effect, helping Liverpool earn a 5-3 victory at Stoke City on Sunday afternoon. Sturridge&#8217;s first appearance since November 23 due to an ankle injury was instrumental, as he came off the bench to set Suarez up for his 22nd goal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420,"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\/419"}],"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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}