{"id":4868,"date":"2014-10-20T02:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2014-10-20T03:19:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T03:19:40","slug":"liverpool-fans-attack-balotteli-on-twitter-after-shocking-miss-against-qpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/liverpool-fans-attack-balotteli-on-twitter-after-shocking-miss-against-qpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Fans Attack Balotteli On Twitter After Shocking Miss Against QPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool fans have taken to Twitter to blast \u00a316m Mario Balotelli for his stunning miss against QPR on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In the 60th minute of an end-to-end encounter against QPR at Loftus Road, Balotelli somehow managed to balloon the ball over the bar from six yards despite having an open goal to aim at.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool fans were quick to express their frustration with the Italian.<\/p>\n<p>One fed-up fan wrote: &#8220;Oh, goodness me. How in the world did Mario Balotelli miss THAT?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another summed up the mood, saying: &#8220;Mario Balotelli has been dreadful for Liverpool today, he missed an absolute sitter of a chance, it was terrible!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Golfer Lee Westwood was quick to join in the criticism of Balotelli.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;You have no sympathy for Balotelli there when he&#8217;s had the attitude of a spoilt kid for most of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One frustrated Liverpool fan said: &#8220;Mario Balotelli doing his best Fernando Torres impression. Unfortunately for us it&#8217;s the Torres that played for Chelsea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a West Ham supporter indicated the former Manchester City striker was worse than Carlton Cole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Liverpool fans have taken to Twitter to blast \u00a316m Mario Balotelli for his stunning miss against QPR on Sunday. In the 60th minute of an end-to-end encounter against QPR at Loftus Road, Balotelli somehow managed to balloon the ball over the bar from six yards despite having an open goal to aim at. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4869,"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\/4868"}],"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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}