{"id":1065752,"date":"2022-04-24T19:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/24\/pulisic-scores-late-as-chelsea-squeeze-past-west-ham\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T19:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T19:39:43","slug":"pulisic-scores-late-as-chelsea-squeeze-past-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/24\/pulisic-scores-late-as-chelsea-squeeze-past-west-ham\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulisic scores late as Chelsea squeeze past West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/christian-pulisic-220424-celebrates-g-1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"christian-pulisic-220424-celebrates-g-1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Chelsea tightened their grip on third place in the Premier League with a 1-0 win over 10-man West Ham on Sunday, with Christian Pulisic\u2019s late winner at Stamford Bridge making up for his teammate Jorginho\u2019s missed penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Pulisic arrived in the box at the right time to guide home a pass by Marcos Alonso in the 90th minute, shortly after Jorginho wasted his chance from the spot, firing straight at West Ham keeper Lukasz Fabianski.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham defender Craig Dawson, one of their best players in a much-changed side, was shown a red card after a check by the Video Assistant Referee following a clumsy foul on substitute Romelu Lukaku which resulted in the penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side ended a run of two straight home defeats \u2013 against Brentford and Arsenal \u2013 but it was their forward line rather than defence that will need working on in the home stretch of the season.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Seventh-placed West Ham made six changes to their starting line-up with an eye on Thursday\u2019s Europa League semifinal first leg against Eintracht Frankfurt, a competition that offers them their best chance of reaching next season\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"PtjeWVzvfFM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Putting GIA and EIU&#039;s Predictions About Mahama, Bawumia, NPP &amp; NDC in Perspective - Nnawotwe Yi.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PtjeWVzvfFM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea tightened their grip on third place in the Premier League with a 1-0 win over 10-man West Ham on Sunday, with Christian Pulisic\u2019s late winner at Stamford Bridge making up for his teammate Jorginho\u2019s missed penalty. Substitute Pulisic arrived in the box at the right time to guide home a pass by Marcos Alonso [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1065754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[58,4635,749,8245,2929,9807,916],"class_list":["post-1065752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-ham","tag-late","tag-pulisic","tag-scores","tag-squeeze","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}