{"id":63458,"date":"2014-07-06T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/63458\/local-lads-beat-tough-opposition\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T13:34:14","slug":"local-lads-beat-tough-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/07\/06\/local-lads-beat-tough-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Local lads beat tough opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hard-fought ELFA Super League Cup game saw Germiston City FC (of Super League Seniors Division Two) claim victory by 2-1 over Bedfordview (of Super League Seniors Division One), last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Germiston started strongly and nearly had the ball in the net in the first minute, but narrowly missed.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In the 17th minute, Germiston did find the back of the net, only for the referee to overrule his linesman and declare the goal offside.<\/p>\n<p>Bedfordview gathered themselves and started to pose some problems for the Germiston defence, but the scores were level at halftime.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In the second half, Bedfordview started with new found energy and scored a well-taken goal in the fourth minute.<\/p>\n<p>Some excellent saves by the Germiston goalkeeper, Brandon Greyling, kept his side in the game and City were rewarded in the 15th minute, with a lovely headed goal from a corner by Dembi Mayimele.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, it was all about the team from the lower league, with some great football being played to keep Bedfordview at bay.<\/p>\n<p>In the 27th minute, Germiston broke through with a beautiful pass from the midfield, with Tshepo Maiketso beating the diving Bedfordview keeper in the bottom left-hand corner.<\/p>\n<p>Although they were 1-2 down, Bedfordview tried to make a comeback, but a resilient Germiston team fought to the end for a well-deserved victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Germiston City reserve side were not so lucky.<\/p>\n<p>After being drawn against Sporting in a cup game, the Germiston side came away with a creditable 2-1 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting scored the winning goal with less than two minutes left on the clock in extra time, after Simpiwe Hlatswayo had put Germiston ahead in the first half.<\/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='d441b945f98c325a034a8cdf5c5844c3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great win for Germiston City Football Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":63485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1123,1589,979,2649,2734,1163,1119],"class_list":["post-63458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-delville","tag-football","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-football-club","tag-melissa-hart","tag-soccer","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Delville","football","germiston","Germiston City Football Club","melissa hart","soccer","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458","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=63458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}