{"id":10626,"date":"2013-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/10626\/luso-advances-in-cup\/"},"modified":"2013-08-13T11:36:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T09:36:36","slug":"luso-advances-in-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/08\/12\/luso-advances-in-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Luso advances in cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luso Africa have beaten top side Benoni Northerns for the second week in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Luso were 2-1 victors at Hattingh Park, on Saturday.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The local side had beaten Northerns 2-0 at the same venue a week earlier, in a Super League match.<\/p>\n<p>This time the Primrose-based side won a cup game.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Luso advanced to the quarter-final of the tournament and are looking like serious contenders for the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>It would take a brave person to bet against them.<\/p>\n<p>They are also doing well in the league.<\/p>\n<p>After beating Northerns in the league they are now second, with six matches to go.<\/p>\n<p>They are, however, 11 points behind first placed Highlands Park, who look like an almost sure bet for the title.<\/p>\n<p>The cup may be Luso&#8217;s best chance for silverware this season.<\/p>\n<p>They get back to league action this weekend, with an away match against Corinthians.<\/p>\n<p>They will then host Edenvale, at Hattingh Park, a week later.<\/p>\n<p>Although it will be tough, the local side do have a mathematical chance of winning the league and the away game against Highlands Park on August 31 could be crucial.<\/p>\n<p>After that Luso will have two home matches in a row, against Union and Corinthians, before the last league match, away to Edenvale.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='2c6ee860dfb322d0fc5dbbf5a2aa0b39'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luso Africa shows class against top side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":10627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Cyril Lehong","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1320],"class_list":["post-10626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-luso-africa-alberton-fc-soccer-hattingh-park"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Luso Africa; Alberton FC; Soccer; Hattingh Park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}