{"id":127,"date":"2012-04-02T13:03:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2012-04-02T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:03:39","slug":"chicago-and-anwunta-saves-day-for-heartland-in-calabar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Chicago and Anwunta saves day for Heartland in Calabar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The duo of Chinedu Efugh (Chicago) and Ikechukwu Ibenegbu (Anwunta) salvaged what many thought was an already lost three points in Calabar against Niger Tornadoes in the rescheduled week 3 NPL Match played in U.J Esueni Stadium Calabar on Wednesday the 21<sup>st<\/sup> of March 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors had taken an unlikely lead in the match from an own goal which was however credited to Etor Essien in the 73<sup>rd<\/sup> minute of the game.<\/p>\n<p>But just like the Trojans they are, the FA Cup champions rallied round from behind to stake a hold in the race for a top finishing in the League if not wining it, by first leveling the score through their Captain fantastic Efugh, popularly called (Chicago) in the 83<sup>rd<\/sup> minute with a powerful header.<\/p>\n<p>Just when every one was thinking that the visitors had secured an away draw, \u2018Anwunta\u2019 (mosquito) struck at the 88<sup>th<\/sup> minute of play as the lads from Minna could no longer sustain the tempo of stopping the foray of attacks Heartland were firing from all cylinders.\u00a0 He converted a well deserved penalty kick after Tornadoes defenders committed a free kick offence inside the penalty box.<\/p>\n<p>With this result, Heartland now has 22 points in 15 matches in the Nigerian Premier League.\u00a0 The Team is billed to depart Calabar for Port Harcourt were they will board their plane to Cameroon on Thursday to take on Sc Nkam of Cameroon in the CAF Confederation Cup on Saturday the 24<sup>th<\/sup> 2012 (Time 3:30pm).<\/p>\n<p>The return leg of that encounter will be in Owerri, in a fourth night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duo of Chinedu Efugh (Chicago) and Ikechukwu Ibenegbu (Anwunta) salvaged what many thought was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}