{"id":964,"date":"2014-01-25T20:14:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=964"},"modified":"2014-01-25T20:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:14:46","slug":"agueros-treble-save-city-fa-cup-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/agueros-treble-save-city-fa-cup-embarrassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Aguero&#8217;s treble save City FA Cup embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick as Manchester City survived a scare to book a place in the FA Cup fifth round with a resurgent victory over Watford.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Championship side stood on the verge of a famous result after Fernando Forestieri finished from Troy Deeney&#8217;s flick, and Deeney added another for the visitors before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>But four second half goals maintained City&#8217;s 100% home record and four-goal average in domestic competitions this season, as Aguero&#8217;s personal tally reached 25, but the two late strikes meant the scoreline flattered the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>City were without injured striker Alvaro Negredo, but they still fielded a strong side including Yaya Toure and Aguero and could hardly blame their pedestrian start on their line-up.<\/p>\n<p>bbc.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick as Manchester City survived a scare to book a place in the FA Cup fifth round with a resurgent victory over Watford. \u00a0The Championship side stood on the verge of a famous result after Fernando Forestieri finished from Troy Deeney&#8217;s flick, and Deeney added another for the visitors before half-time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965,"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\/964"}],"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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}