{"id":14996,"date":"2023-08-20T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14996"},"modified":"2023-08-20T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T15:17:30","slug":"epl-spurs-put-two-past-spiritless-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14996","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Spurs Put Two Past Spiritless Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Tottenham have beaten Manchester United 2-0 at White Hart Lane on Saturday to secure manager, Ange Postecoglou\u2019s first win in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Spurs and United created chances throughout a sometimes chaotic encounter before the deadlock was broken by Pape Matar Sarr\u2019s goal, drilled high into the net from close range four minutes after the interval.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a game of numerous chances, Spurs sealed the victory in front of the ecstatic home support after 83 minutes when Ivan Perisic\u2019s cross took a touch off Ben Davies before going in via Lisandro Martinez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The home side hit the woodwork twice in the first half through Pedro Porro and Luke Shaw\u2019s deflection, while Antony hit the upright for United, new Spurs keeper Guglielmo Vicario saved superbly from Casemiro and Bruno Fernandes somehow headed wide of an open goal in the first half.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Both sides also had penalty appeals turned down when Cristian Romero handled and then when the Spurs defender appeared to be bundled to the ground by Martinez at the other end, but ultimately it was Spurs\u2019 greater attacking intent that made the difference.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham have beaten Manchester United 2-0 at White Hart Lane on Saturday to secure manager, Ange Postecoglou\u2019s first win in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[223,1370,2300],"class_list":["post-14996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-epl","tag-manchester-united","tag-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14998,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions\/14998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}