{"id":176295,"date":"2018-08-12T05:18:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T09:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176295"},"modified":"2018-08-12T05:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T09:18:06","slug":"iloilo-nears-sealing-second-spot-blasting-cebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/12\/iloilo-nears-sealing-second-spot-blasting-cebu\/","title":{"rendered":"Iloilo nears sealing second spot after blasting Cebu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_176296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176296\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kaya-Iloilo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176296\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kaya-Iloilo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kaya-Iloilo.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kaya-Iloilo-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kaya-Iloilo-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaya Iloilo placed one foot in securing the second place finish in the Philippines Football League after dealing Global Cebu a 6-0 thrashing at the Iloilo Sports Complex in Iloilo City on Saturday. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayafc.com\/match\/10457-kaya-fc%E2%80%93iloilo-v-global-cebu-fc\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayafc.com\/\">Kaya FC-Iloilo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Kaya Iloilo placed one foot in securing the second place finish in the Philippines Football League after dealing Global Cebu a 6-0 thrashing at the Iloilo Sports Complex in Iloilo City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Tanton opened the scoring for Iloilo in the 24th minute, while Robert Mendy made it 2-0 just two minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>However, the day belonged to hometown hero Jovin Bedic, who iced Iloilo&#8217;s win with a brace, scoring in the 69th and the 75th minutes for a 4-0 count.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes Jayson Panhay and Connor Tacagni joined the fun and made goals in the 85th and the 90th minutes respectively for the final score.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Davao, Iloilo&#8217;s nearest opponent in the race for second, has been officially knocked off of contention as the club can only go a maximum of 41 points and Iloilo has already notched its 42nd point in the league table.<\/p>\n<p>The development leaves Laguna, which has 31 points and a match at hand, the only team in contention for the silver medal finish, which still has a bearing in terms of a spot in the Asian Football Confederation Cup next year.<\/p>\n<p>Laguna will host Marikina on Wednesday as the club returns from a 10-day break before taking on Iloilo a week from Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Kaya Iloilo placed one foot in securing the second place finish in the Philippines Football League after dealing Global &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":176296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176295","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=176295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}