{"id":15362,"date":"2012-09-08T13:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=15362"},"modified":"2012-10-14T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T01:20:15","slug":"bengtson-scores-in-honduras-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=15362","title":{"rendered":"Bengtson Scores In Honduras Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New England Revolution striker Jerry Bengtson and Honduras kept their World Cup hopes alive with an important 3-0 victory over Cuba at Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bengtson played the full 90 minutes in the match and scored the eventual game-winner in the 32nd minute. Bengtson\u2019s goal came off a left footed volley from just outside the 6-yard box after Georgie Welcome headed a cross from Emilio Izaguirre into his path. The goal ended a 239-minute goalless streak for Hondurras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect us to win by three goals,\u201d Bengtson told the media after the match. \u201cIt was a real blessing for me to score on my return to the national side. We\u2019re back in the hunt now and full of confidence in our qualifying chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other goal scorers in the match were defender V\u00edctor Bern\u00e1rdez (62nd minute) and midfielder Marvin Chavez (92nd), who both play for the San Jose Earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>The win leaves Honduras (1-1-1, 4 points) in third place in Group C of COCACAF World Cup Qualifying. The top team teams advance and Honduras sits two points behind second place Panama (2-0-1, 6 points) and three points behind first place Canada (2-0-1, 7 points).<\/p>\n<p>Honduras is hoping to qualify for their second straight World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Honduras faces Cuba (0-3-0, 0 points) again on Tuesday, this time at home at Estadio Ol\u00edmpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula in Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>Bengtson has two goals in seven MLS games (four starts) since joining the Revolution<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8BgOzWGx5Jc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengtson stays hot as Honduras picks up crucial 3-0 win in Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[26,3,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16170,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions\/16170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}