{"id":2359,"date":"2014-06-01T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2014-06-01T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T09:01:24","slug":"england-beat-peru-in-2014-world-cup-warm-up-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/england-beat-peru-in-2014-world-cup-warm-up-game\/","title":{"rendered":"England Beat Peru in 2014 World Cup warm-up game"},"content":{"rendered":"

England overcame some stubborn resistance from a well-organised defensive Peru side before sealing a comfortable 3-0 win in their last home World Cup warm-up match at Wembley on Friday.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most memorable moment of the game was when Peru’s Hansell Riojas was struck by a paper plane thrown by a fan high up in the stands.<\/p>\n

England head off to their final training camp in Miami boosted by an excellent opener from Daniel Sturridge after 32 minutes which lit up a lifeless first half.<\/p>\n

Two second-half goals from set-pieces by central defenders Gary Cahill and Phil Jagielka gave England a deserved win in the first match between the two countries since they last met 52 years ago just before the 1962 World Cup in Chile.<\/p>\n

Peru, who failed to reach this year’s finals in Brazil after a poor campaign in the South American qualifiers, defended well and Jean Deza stood out in midfield with a solid performance, forcing England goalkeeper Joe Hart into two good saves…<\/p>\n

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South Africa Today – Sport – Football – England vs Peru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

England overcame some stubborn resistance from a well-organised defensive Peru side before sealing a comfortable 3-0 win in their last home World Cup warm-up match at Wembley on Friday. But perhaps the most memorable moment of the game was when Peru’s Hansell Riojas was struck by a paper plane thrown by a fan high up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,84],"tags":[147,149,124,151,148,146,139,144,122,111,159,163,138,134,150,1267,143,160,161,130,125,156,162,140,137,157,131,123,145,152,155,141,142,158,114,120,154,153,80,135,132,121,133,136,127,129,128,126],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-world-cup","tag-1962-world-cup","tag-1962-world-cup-in-chile","tag-3-0-win","tag-brazil","tag-chile","tag-countries","tag-daniel-sturridge","tag-defenders","tag-defensive-peru","tag-england","tag-england-goalkeeper","tag-england-vs-peru","tag-excellent-opener","tag-fan","tag-finals-in-brazil","tag-football","tag-gary-cahill","tag-goalkeeper","tag-goalkeeper-joe-hart","tag-hansell-riojas","tag-home-world-cup-warm-up-match","tag-jean-deza","tag-joe-hart","tag-lifeless-first-half","tag-miami","tag-midfield","tag-paper-plane","tag-peru","tag-phil-jagielka","tag-poor-campaign","tag-qualifiers","tag-second-half-goals","tag-set-pieces","tag-solid-performance","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-south-american","tag-south-american-qualifiers","tag-sport","tag-stands","tag-struck-by-a-paper-plane","tag-thrown-by-a-fan","tag-training-camp","tag-warm-up-match","tag-wembley","tag-world-cup-match","tag-world-cup-warm-up-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}