{"id":39698,"date":"2014-08-16T13:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T13:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=39698"},"modified":"2014-08-16T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T13:54:25","slug":"van-gaal-loses-first-game-as-man-utd-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=39698","title":{"rendered":"Van Gaal loses first game as Man UTD boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">Louis van Gaal&#8217;s reign as Manchester United manager began with a defeat by Swansea that revived memories of last year&#8217;s dismal campaign at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts fell behind to Ki Sung-yueng&#8217;s precise 20-yard shot, before skipper Wayne Rooney levelled with a close-range volley from a corner.<\/p>\n<p>United had more of the ball but failed to deal with Jefferson Montero&#8217;s cross, allowing Gylfi Sigurdsson to tap in.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal&#8217;s side almost conceded a third but Bafetimbi Gomis miscontrolled.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"Wayne Rooney scores for Manchester United\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76983000\/jpg\/_76983086_rooney_pa.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"260\" \/>Wayne Rooney, preferred to Robin van Persie as Louis van Gaal&#8217;s captain, scores the first goal of the Dutchman&#8217;s reign<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"Ki Sung-yeung\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76983000\/jpg\/_76983092_kisungyeung_getty.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"260\" \/>Ki Sung-yueng found the net as Wilfried Bony tussled with Phil Jones<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy at Old Trafford\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76983000\/jpg\/_76983089_mcilroy_getty.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"260\" \/>Manchester United fan Rory McIlroy showed off the spoils of his Open victory at half-time<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"Louis van Gaal and Ryan Giggs\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76982000\/jpg\/_76982098_vangaal_pa.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"260\" \/>Ryan Giggs (left) has stayed on as assistant manager after finishing his playing career at the end of last season<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis van Gaal&#8217;s reign as Manchester United manager began with a defeat by Swansea that revived memories of last year&#8217;s dismal campaign at Old Trafford. The hosts fell behind to Ki Sung-yueng&#8217;s precise 20-yard shot, before skipper Wayne Rooney levelled with a close-range volley from a corner. United had more of the ball but failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39699,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-39698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39698","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=39698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}