{"id":42157,"date":"2014-01-20T02:31:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/manchester_united_loses_again_this_time_to_chelsea_3-1\/"},"modified":"2014-01-20T02:31:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:31:28","slug":"manchester_united_loses_again_this_time_to_chelsea_3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42157","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United loses again, this time to Chelsea 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho headed to the Savoy after this comfortable victory, receiving a special tribute night from the Football Writers\u2019 Association, but his team hardly needed to put on the Ritz to put Manchester United to the sword. In second gear throughout, Mourinho\u2019s side were just too organised defensively, a contrast to the visitors, and just too intelligent tactically for United.<br \/>\nThat was what should hurt the champions most. Chelsea did not need to be special to win. Adding to the pain, Mourinho offered United his sympathy afterwards, saying the game had been closer. Such pitying almost indicated that Mourinho did not see United as rivals any more, certainly not in the Premier League where David Moyes\u2019s side now lie 14 points behind the leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/competitions\/premier-league\/10576716\/Chelsea-3-Manchester-United-1-match-report.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho headed to the Savoy after this comfortable victory, receiving a special tribute night from the Football Writers\u2019 Association, but his team hardly needed to put on the Ritz to put Manchester United to the sword. In second gear<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42157\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}