{"id":183986,"date":"2016-01-23T09:07:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T09:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=183986"},"modified":"2016-01-23T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T09:07:27","slug":"lewandowski-helps-bayern-extend-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=183986","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowski helps Bayern extend lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robert Lewandowski scored twice as Bayern Munich went 11 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga with a hard-fought win at Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lewandowski opened the scoring with a penalty after Thomas Muller was brought down by Hamburg goalkeeper Rene Adler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamburg levelled when Xabi Alonso put the ball past his own keeper trying to clear Aaron Hunt&#8217;s free-kick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lewandowski ensured Bayern made a winning return after the winter break, deflecting Thomas Muller&#8217;s shot home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took the Poland international striker&#8217;s league tally for the season to 17 goals, one behind Borussia Dortmund&#8217;s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Alaba also hit the post with a superb free-kick for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Bayern boss Pep Guardiola saw defender Jerome Boateng forced off with an injury in the first game after Germany&#8217;s winter break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was their first competitive game since Guardiola announced last month he will leave at the end of the season to manage in England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lewandowski scored twice as Bayern Munich went 11 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga with a hard-fought win at Hamburg. Lewandowski opened the scoring with a penalty after Thomas Muller was brought down by Hamburg goalkeeper Rene Adler. Hamburg levelled when Xabi Alonso put the ball past his own keeper trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183986","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}