{"id":346519,"date":"2017-08-20T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346519"},"modified":"2017-08-20T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T17:02:17","slug":"alonso-double-earns-chelsea-late-win-over-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346519","title":{"rendered":"Alonso double earns Chelsea late win over Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Marcos Alonso scored twice as champions Chelsea beat Tottenham in their first Premier League game at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s side are playing their home matches at Wembley this season as White Hart Lane undergoes renovation and thought they had nicked a point when Michy Batshuayi headed Christian Eriksen&#8217;s cross into his own net on 82 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73554\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AlonsoGoal.jpg\" alt=\"alonsogoal\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But wing-back Alonso found space in the box with three minutes remaining to drill a low finish under goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73551\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Alonso-cele.jpg\" alt=\"alonso-cele\" width=\"574\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea&#8217;s \u00a360m summer signing Alvaro Morata missed an early chance with a free header from eight yards out, but Alonso gave the visitors the lead when he curled a superb free-kick into the top corner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73553\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AlonsoCele.jpg\" alt=\"alonsocele\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spurs applied pressure as they looked to get back into the game, with striker Harry Kane striking the foot of the post and Ben Davies forcing a good save from Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73555\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bats-OG.jpg\" alt=\"bats-og\" width=\"574\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Blues also struck the post in the second half through midfielder Willian&#8217;s rasping drive, but they were rewarded with Alonso&#8217;s late goal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73550\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4-1.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"574\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos Alonso scored twice as champions Chelsea beat Tottenham in their first Premier League game at Wembley Stadium. Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s side are playing their home matches at Wembley this season as White Hart Lane undergoes renovation and thought they had nicked a point when Michy Batshuayi headed Christian Eriksen&#8217;s cross into his own net on [&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-346519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346519","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=346519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}