{"id":285077,"date":"2017-01-15T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=285077"},"modified":"2017-01-15T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T18:30:59","slug":"man-utd-1-1-liverpool-late-zlatan-goal-earns-united-point-against-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=285077","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd 1-1 Liverpool: Late Zlatan goal earns United point against Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man United drew\u00a01-1 with Liverpool at\u00a0home in an enthralling game on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">The draw<\/span><\/span> means there are just five points between United in sixth on\u00a040 points\u00a0and second-placed Tottenham on 45 points, with leaders Chelsea in front with 52.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pogbadisbelief1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65167\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pogbadisbelief1.jpg\" alt=\"pogbadisbelief1\" width=\"574\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Old Trafford it was Liverpool who struck first through James Milner\u2019s penalty, but a fantastic header from Zlatan Ibrahimovic levelled the scores with six minutes left on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>It would have taken a brave man to bet against Milner\u00a0scoring &#8211; the result of a Paul Pogba handball &#8211;\u00a0considering he has scored each of his last 10 penalties in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Milner-pen1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65166\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Milner-pen1.jpg\" alt=\"milner-pen1\" width=\"574\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s Simon Mignolet who the visitors should\u00a0thank for going in at half-time with their 1-0 lead intact, The goalkeeper made two superb saves to deny both\u00a0Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Milner-cele.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65165\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Milner-cele.jpg\" alt=\"milner-cele\" width=\"574\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes after the restart Anthony Martial was unlucky not to equalise when Mkhitaryan burst into the <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">box<\/span><\/span> on the right hand side, but the cross was too quick for the Frenchman to reach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zlatan-header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65170\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zlatan-header.jpg\" alt=\"zlatan-header\" width=\"574\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the other end, David De Gea was alert to make sure Liverpool didn\u2019t <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">double<\/span><\/span> their lead, with both Roberto Firmino and Adam Lallana seeing their powerful shots saved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zlatan-cele1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65169\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zlatan-cele1.jpg\" alt=\"zlatan-cele1\" width=\"480\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then in the final ten minutes Ibrahimovic got the all-important goal when he guided in a cross from the right after an initial effort from Maroune Fellaini cannoned off the post<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Talksport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man United drew\u00a01-1 with Liverpool at\u00a0home in an enthralling game on Sunday. The draw means there are just five points between United in sixth on\u00a040 points\u00a0and second-placed Tottenham on 45 points, with leaders Chelsea in front with 52. At Old Trafford it was Liverpool who struck first through James Milner\u2019s penalty, but a fantastic header [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-285077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285077","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=285077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}