{"id":794,"date":"2014-01-23T00:14:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T00:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=794"},"modified":"2014-01-23T00:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T00:14:54","slug":"udinese-shock-milan-in-coppa-italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/udinese-shock-milan-in-coppa-italia\/","title":{"rendered":"Udinese shock Milan in Coppa Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AC Milan suffered a shock exit from the Copa Italia when they lost 1-2 at home to Serie A strugglers Udinese in Clarense Seedorf&#8217;s second match in charge on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>An individual goal by 20-year-old Uruguayan Nicolas Lopez, only two minutes after coming on as a substitute, condemned Milan to the inevitable chorus of jeers from a sparse San Siro crowd after their quarter-final defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Milan\u00a0made a flying start to the tie when Mario Balotelli\u00a0tapped in from close range after six minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Milan failed to build on their early goal and Udinese levelled with a penalty converted by Colombian forward Luis Muriel four minutes before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez,who came in as a substitute did not waste time after collecting the ball just inside the Milan half, surged forward and fired his shot into the corner.<\/p>\n<p>The former European champiMilan, who are placed 11th in Serie A, had no answer and trudged off after writing another chapter in a dismal seasonon.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; AC Milan suffered a shock exit from the Copa Italia when they lost 1-2 at home to Serie A strugglers Udinese in Clarense Seedorf&#8217;s second match in charge on Wednesday. An individual goal by 20-year-old Uruguayan Nicolas Lopez, only two minutes after coming on as a substitute, condemned Milan to the inevitable chorus of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}