{"id":120660,"date":"2015-05-30T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=120660"},"modified":"2015-05-30T19:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T19:58:43","slug":"arsenal-win-12th-fa-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=120660","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal win 12th FA Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal retained the FA Cup with a dominant victory over Aston Villa to become the most successful team in the competition&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>After heavy first-half pressure, Theo Walcott volleyed the Gunners deservedly ahead just before the break.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Sanchez&#8217;s swerving second-half 25-yard strike doubled the lead as Arsenal created a plethora of chances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Sanchez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120662\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Sanchez.jpg\" alt=\"Sanchez\" width=\"624\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Sanchez.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Sanchez-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Villa&#8217;s misery deepened as Per Mertesacker headed in a third before Olivier Giroud tapped home late on.<\/p>\n<p>It was a record 12th time the Gunners had lifted the trophy, with Arsene Wenger becoming the first post-war manager to win it six times.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal controlled the match from the start, having 16 shots compared to Aston Villa&#8217;s two, although Tim Sherwood&#8217;s men did have two penalty claims turned down late on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Credit: BBC<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal retained the FA Cup with a dominant victory over Aston Villa to become the most successful team in the competition&#8217;s history. After heavy first-half pressure, Theo Walcott volleyed the Gunners deservedly ahead just before the break. Alexis Sanchez&#8217;s swerving second-half 25-yard strike doubled the lead as Arsenal created a plethora of chances. Villa&#8217;s misery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":120661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-120660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}