{"id":412902,"date":"2011-05-01T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/01\/city-see-off-hammers\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:44:37","slug":"city-see-off-hammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/city-see-off-hammers\/","title":{"rendered":"City see off Hammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"46.5015608741\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/c8a84847ele_2591782.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Image text here\" height=\"350px\" width=\"660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>De Jong salutes his first goal for Man City<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Manchester City took a step closer to the Champions League with a hard-fought 2-1 win over West Ham to leave the visitors rooted to the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n<p><span>The home raced into a 2-0 lead inside the first 15 minutes with Nigel de Jong firing home his first goal for the club with a shot from the edge of the box and Pablo Zabaleta seeing his shot turned into his own net by Lars Jacobsen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>West Ham pulled a goal back on 33 minutes when Thomas Hitzlsperger&#8217;s cross into the area struck Joleon Lescott on the arm, but Demba Ba reacted quickly to fire past Joe Hart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Hammers poured forward in search of an equaliser in the second half, but City held on to move seven points clear of Liverpool in the race to finish fourth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The defeat leaves West Ham three points adrift of safety with only three games left in the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More to follow&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/c8a84847ele_2591782.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/story\/0,19528,11095_6908324,00.html\" title=\"City see off Hammers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City see off Hammers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> De Jong salutes his first goal for Man City Manchester City took a step closer to the Champions League with a hard-fought 2-1 win over West Ham to leave the visitors rooted to the bottom of the table. The home raced into a 2-0 lead inside the first 15 minutes with Nigel de Jong firing home his first goal for the club with a shot from the edge of the box and Pablo Zabaleta seeing his shot turned into his own net by Lars Jacobsen. West Ham pulled a goal back on 33 minutes when Thomas Hitzlsperger&#8217;s cross into the area struck Joleon Lescott on the arm, but Demba Ba reacted quickly to fire past Joe Hart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>City see off Hammers - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/city-see-off-hammers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"City see off Hammers - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"De Jong salutes his first goal for Man City Manchester City took a step closer to the Champions League with a hard-fought 2-1 win over West Ham to leave the visitors rooted to the bottom of the table. 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