{"id":348350,"date":"2017-08-26T18:37:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T18:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=348350"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:46:43","slug":"man-utd-stay-top-after-rashford-fellaini-strikes-against-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=348350","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd stay top after Rashford, Fellaini strikes against Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Substitutes Marcus Rashford and Marouane Fellaini both scored as Manchester United overcame a resolute Leicester to strengthen their position at the top of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73860\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lukaku-Pen.jpg\" alt=\"lukaku-pen\" width=\"574\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jose Mourinho&#8217;s side had applied incessant pressure on the Foxes from kick-off, and Romelu Lukaku missed a second-half penalty prior to the goals, as they found it difficult to break the steadfast backline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73861\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PenaltySave.jpg\" alt=\"penaltysave\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They finally breached the last line of\u00a0defence\u00a0when Rashford converted Henrikh Mkhitaryan&#8217;s corner three minutes after coming on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73863\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Rashford.jpg\" alt=\"rashford\" width=\"624\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then midfielder Fellaini stuck out his knee to divert fellow substitute Jesse Lingard&#8217;s drive past Kasper Schmeichel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73859\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fellaini-cele.jpg\" alt=\"fellaini-cele\" width=\"624\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>United are the only side to have won all three of their opening league games this season and have yet to concede a goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substitutes Marcus Rashford and Marouane Fellaini both scored as Manchester United overcame a resolute Leicester to strengthen their position at the top of the Premier League. Jose Mourinho&#8217;s side had applied incessant pressure on the Foxes from kick-off, and Romelu Lukaku missed a second-half penalty prior to the goals, as they found it difficult to [&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-348350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348350","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=348350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}