{"id":6266,"date":"2023-07-18T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/involvement.co.ke\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:55:35","slug":"spurs1st-friendly-ends-in-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2023\/07\/18\/spurs1st-friendly-ends-in-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs 1st friendly ends in defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>Photo courtesy of Spurs official<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Angel Postecoglou watched on as Spurs were narrowly beaten by their London rivals in a closely contested match at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Australia. The match was Spurs\u2019 first outing of pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian was in charge of his first friendly match since taking over at spurs going with a strong lineup spearheaded by want away striker Harry Kane. New signing James Madison featured in the match as well alongside Kulusevski and Solomon Manor in attack.<\/p>\n<p>Gianluca Scamacca, Danny Ings and Divin Mubamba were all on target for David Moyes\u2019 side, as they cruised to a third-successive pre-season victory. The Hammers have been on a roll in pre-season and this latest result further cemented that.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs, meanwhile, nearly rescued a draw through second-half strikes from Giovanni Lo Celso and Destiny Udogie but it was too little, too late for the north London side. The North Londoners will fancy their chance at a first win in pre-season when they take on Leicester on July 23.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ll still be plenty of positives for Spurs fans to look back on, after getting a glimpse of their new attacking-style in action for the first time. They\u2019ll be hoping to keep hold of their starman and English striker Harry Jane who is rumored to want a transfer to Bayern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo courtesy of Spurs official] Angel Postecoglou watched on as Spurs were narrowly beaten by their London rivals in a closely contested match at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Australia. The match was Spurs\u2019 first outing of pre-season. The Australian was in charge of his first friendly match since taking over at spurs going with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[371,372],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-sports","tag-spurs","tag-west-ham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}