{"id":9795,"date":"2014-03-30T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=9795"},"modified":"2014-03-30T18:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:32:37","slug":"everton-beat-fulham-to-keep-europe-dream-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=9795","title":{"rendered":"Everton beat Fulham to keep Europe dream alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9796 aligncenter\" alt=\"ev\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ev-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ev-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ev.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">Everton recorded a fifth successive Premier League win to continue their push for a Champions League berth, dumping Fulham deeper into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Steven Naismith&#8217;s shot deflected off David Stockdale to give the Toffees the lead, before Ashkan Dejagah drilled home an equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>But Kevin Mirallas&#8217;s left-foot shot and Naismith&#8217;s stabbed finish ensured the visitors moved four points behind fourth-placed Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham are five points from safety.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_2\">It was the first time since the early days of David Moyes&#8217;s reign in 2002 that the Merseysiders have won five league games in succession.<\/p>\n<p>As they have a game in hand on Arsenal, who visit Goodison Park next Sunday, Everton&#8217;s fate is in their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>With six games to play, Fulham&#8217;s situation is becoming critical, and defeat will have hurt even more because they played so well before the break.<\/p>\n<p>On his first start, 17-year-old Moussa Dembele had an excellent chance to put the hosts in front a minute before the break but headed Lewis Holtby&#8217;s chipped cross straight at Tim Howard.<\/p>\n<p>The Everton keeper had earlier used his feet to deny the French teenager &#8211; not to be confused with former Fulham midfielder Mousa Dembele, now at Tottenham. However, a debatable offside flag had already been raised before the save was made.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton recorded a fifth successive Premier League win to continue their push for a Champions League berth, dumping Fulham deeper into trouble. Substitute Steven Naismith&#8217;s shot deflected off David Stockdale to give the Toffees the lead, before Ashkan Dejagah drilled home an equaliser. But Kevin Mirallas&#8217;s left-foot shot and Naismith&#8217;s stabbed finish ensured the visitors [&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":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-9795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795","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=9795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}