{"id":11081,"date":"2018-02-20T02:52:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2018-02-20T02:52:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:52:06","slug":"melbourne-city-claim-third-straight-w-league-title-sydney-fc-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/20\/melbourne-city-claim-third-straight-w-league-title-sydney-fc-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne City claim third straight W-League title after Sydney FC win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne City claim their third straight W-League title after a 2-0 grand final win over <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/05\/07\/sydney-fc-claim-league-title-winning-melbourne-victory\/\">Sydney FC<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jess Fishlock opened the scoring for City in the 35th minute with a perfect lob from distance\u00a0over Sydney goalkeeper Aubrey Bledsoe.<\/p>\n<p>Her 75-minute superb free-kick struck the frame of the goal before Jodie Taylor\u00a0tapped in to seal the victory for City.<\/p>\n<p>While City became the first team in W-League history to win three championships, Fishlock won the grand final\u2019s most valuable player award for the second year running.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has made an incredible record of winning four W-League titles, with one won while at Melbourne Victory in 2014, and now makes three championship crowns with Melbourne City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne City claim their third straight W-League title after a 2-0 grand final win over Sydney FC on Sunday. Jess Fishlock opened the scoring for City in the 35th minute with a perfect lob from distance\u00a0over Sydney goalkeeper Aubrey Bledsoe. Her 75-minute superb free-kick struck the frame of the goal before Jodie Taylor\u00a0tapped in to seal the victory for City. While City became the first team in W-League history to win three championships, Fishlock won the grand final\u2019s most valuable player award for the second year running. The 31-year-old has made an incredible record of winning four W-League titles, with one won while at Melbourne Victory in 2014, and now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/20\/melbourne-city-claim-third-straight-w-league-title-sydney-fc-win\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Melbourne City claim third straight W-League title after Sydney FC win&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[110,241,1238],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australia","tag-melbourne-city","tag-w-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}