{"id":9798,"date":"2014-03-30T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=9798"},"modified":"2014-03-30T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:36:11","slug":"liverpool-destroy-spurs-to-go-top-of-epl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=9798","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool destroy Spurs to go top of EPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lsua.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9799 aligncenter\" alt=\"lsua\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lsua-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lsua-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lsua.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"description\">Liverpool moved to the top of the Premier League as they humiliated a woeful Tottenham side at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"description\">The game was live on Citi FM as part of the weekend&#8217;s Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>A second-minute Younes Kaboul own goal, following Glen Johnson&#8217;s low cross, put the Reds on course for an eighth successive league victory.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Suarez made it 2-0 after Michael Dawson&#8217;s error, and the Uruguayan then had a header pushed onto the post.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_2\">Philippe Coutinho added a third goal from 25 yards and Jordan Henderson&#8217;s low free-kick sealed the rout.<\/p>\n<p>Victory moved the Reds two points ahead of Chelsea and four in front of Manchester City, though Manuel Pellegrini&#8217;s side have played two games fewer than their title rivals.<\/p>\n<p>However, with both Chelsea and City still to visit Anfield, Brendan Rodgers&#8217;s team have their destiny in their own hands. Six wins from their last six matches will see them win the league title for the first time since 1989-90.<\/p>\n<p>This game was expected to present a tough challenge, but the hosts &#8211; who last topped the table on Boxing Day, before a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/25442148\">2-1 defeat at Manchester City<\/a> &#8211; dominated from the off and should have won by a wider margin.<\/p>\n<p>As well as underlining the Reds&#8217; place at the heart of the title fight, the match also served as another reality check for a Tottenham side that face a battle to hang on to sixth place and Europa League qualification.<\/p>\n<p>The Londoners remain well short of the quality needed for a Champions League spot, and have only taken one point from eight league games against the top four this season.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool moved to the top of the Premier League as they humiliated a woeful Tottenham side at Anfield. The game was live on Citi FM as part of the weekend&#8217;s Premier League games. A second-minute Younes Kaboul own goal, following Glen Johnson&#8217;s low cross, put the Reds on course for an eighth successive league victory. [&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-9798","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\/9798","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=9798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}