{"id":1798,"date":"2014-01-08T18:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2014-01-08T18:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:58:40","slug":"sunderland-afc-v-manchester-united-capital-one-cup-semi-final-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/sunderland-afc-v-manchester-united-capital-one-cup-semi-final-first-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland AFC v Manchester United \u2013 Capital One Cup: Semi-Final, First-Leg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Match date: Tuesday 07 January 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Score: Sunderland 2 \u2013 1 Manchester United<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reflection time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, it is the day after the evening before, and oh, what a wonderful night of Football for everyone associated with the greatest club in the land, Sunderland AFC!!<\/p>\n<p>Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or we really only \u00a0(potentially!) 90 minutes away from a cup final at the mighty Wembley Stadium?! \u00a0With the return leg to play at Old Trafford on Jan 22, the tie is balanced nicely in our favour. \u00a0I can&#8217;t wait for the fixture to come around but it seems an eternity away at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put: We fully deserved the victory on the night.<\/p>\n<p>Each player to a man put in a performance, and again, we looked a million miles away from a club stuck at the foot of the table. \u00a0I&#8217;ve said it before, and I will say it again: We are far better than our league position suggests.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent performance all round and I was extremely proud\u00a0of the lads.<\/p>\n<p>I only hope that we can push on up the league now. \u00a0Would it really be such a bad season if we end up finishing 17th in the league with the Capitol One Cup in the trophy cabinet?!<\/p>\n<p>I would happily accept that little scenario now thank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in relation to the cup I would like to take a cue from BonJovi&#8230;.\u00a0Whooah, we&#8217;re half way there!!<\/p>\n<p>I love days like that!<\/p>\n<p>My Man Of The Match: The whole team performed admirably, however Ki and Borini stood out, and Bardsley was immense. \u00a0But for me, the plaudit goes to the new boy Alonso &#8211; what a debut young man!<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook Post Link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chrischambersadi\/posts\/10202809188211246?stream_ref=1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chrischambersadi\/posts\/10202809188211246?stream_ref=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match date: Tuesday 07 January 2014. Final Score: Sunderland 2 \u2013 1 Manchester United Reflection time\u2026 As I write this, it is the day after the evening before, and oh, what a wonderful night of Football for everyone associated with the greatest club in the land, Sunderland AFC!! Are my eyes playing tricks on me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[59,49,48,46,50,47,61,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}