{"id":172951,"date":"2018-07-24T21:36:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=172951"},"modified":"2018-07-24T21:36:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:36:51","slug":"negros-goes-clincher-cebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/24\/negros-goes-clincher-cebu\/","title":{"rendered":"Negros goes for clincher against Cebu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_172956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172956\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ceres-Negros.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172956\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ceres-Negros.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ceres-Negros.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ceres-Negros-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ceres-Negros-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Negros, leading by 18 points against Iloilo in the league table, only needs a draw in its 7 p.m. battle with Cebu to complete a back-to-back. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ceresnegrosfc\/photos\/a.286157474799272.66511.124935764254778\/1781168001964871\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ceresnegrosfc\/\">Ceres-Negros FC\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Ceres Negros looks to finally seal its second straight Philippines Football League title as it takes on Global Cebu again on Wednesday night at the Rizal Memorial Stadium here.<\/p>\n<p>Negros, leading by 18 points against Iloilo in the league table, only needs a draw in its 7 p.m. battle with Cebu to complete a back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>If the club gets its needed result, Negros will become the first team to successfully defend its first division title since Air Force completed a two-peat in the defunct UFL in 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the AFP-based club, which is set to join the de facto second-tier WFL Elite League, did the trick with a draw against Cebu as well.<\/p>\n<p>If recent history is to be used as basis, Negros is a huge cinch to not just hold Cebu to a draw, but even beat it as the former mauled the latter, 7-1, in their recent meeting on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>With Laguna beating Iloilo earlier Saturday in Bi\u00f1an, Negros can officially clinch the title as early as Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Davao looks to solidify its hold of the third place as it goes up against Marikina at the PFF National Training Center in Carmona at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Ceres Negros looks to finally seal its second straight Philippines Football League title as it takes on Global Cebu &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":172956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}