{"id":34214,"date":"2013-08-29T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/34214\/luso-maintains-second-spot\/"},"modified":"2013-08-29T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:08:11","slug":"luso-maintains-second-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/08\/29\/luso-maintains-second-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Luso maintains second spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luso Africa consolidated their second place in the Easterns Super League, on Saturday, beating Edenvale 4-2 at Hattingh Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Primrose-based club dominated the match and it came as no surprise that they emerged victorious.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The two sides started the match with Luso at second on the log, just one point ahead of third placed Union FC and Benoni Northerns.<\/p>\n<p>They were favourites to win the match, given that Edenvale started 11th on the log.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Luso had the match pretty much won by halftime, when they led 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Edenvale did not look like a side that could trouble the local side.<\/p>\n<p>The second half saw the visitors attempt a mini fight-back, as they pulled a goal back to give some of the Luso faithful nervous moments.<\/p>\n<p>The players on the field looked calm, though, and it came as no surprise when they scored the fourth goal.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend Luso will face a tough test against top-of-the-log Highlands Park, who are leading by 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to see how any of the teams in the league can catch them.<\/p>\n<p>Luso will be looking to hold onto second place for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>After facing Highlands, Luso will host Union on September 7 and will then be at home to Corinthians a week later.<\/p>\n<p>The last match of the league campaign will see Luso making the short trip 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='92bb070d6bb28ed865642b5721b91b11'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luso Africa kept up their winning streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":34215,"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":[1589,979,1251,1000,1163,1119],"class_list":["post-34214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-football","tag-germiston","tag-luso-africa","tag-primrose","tag-soccer","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["football","germiston","Luso Africa","primrose","soccer","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34214","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=34214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}