{"id":39983,"date":"2015-12-26T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=39983"},"modified":"2015-12-26T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T20:44:52","slug":"cameron-helps-stoke-beat-man-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=39983","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Helps Stoke Beat Man U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39984\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=39984\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gEOFF-2.png?fit=600%2C414\" data-orig-size=\"600,414\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gEOFF-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gEOFF-2.png?fit=300%2C207\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gEOFF-2.png?fit=600%2C414\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gEOFF-2.png?resize=600%2C414\" alt=\"gEOFF-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gEOFF-2.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gEOFF-2.png?resize=300%2C207 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a thrilling Boxing Day for at least one local footballer on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Attleboro, Mass. native Geoff Cameron helped Stoke City stake a 2-0 triumph over Manchester United in front of 27,426 at Brittania Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron, who went 75 minutes before he was substituted for Charlie Adam, helped pitch the shut out for the Potters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Geoff had a little bit of tightness,&#8221; Stoke manager Mark Hughes told the club&#8217;s official website. &#8220;But we are hopeful that he will be OK in time for the game on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron missed the Potters previous match, a 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace on Dec. 19, due an ongoing hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p>Following the match, the 30-year-old defender took to Twitter to express his thoughts about Saturday&#8217;s win. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great team performance today by the guys! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoxingDay?src=hash\">#BoxingDay<\/a> ?????? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StokeCityFC?src=hash\">#StokeCityFC<\/a> Time to recover and get ready for Monday!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Geoff Cameron (@GeoffCameron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeoffCameron\/status\/680829686369370112\">December 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bojan Krkic kicked off the holiday festivities for the home side when he tallied in the 19th minute.\u00a0Marko Arnautovic doubled the lead moments later when he struck in the 26th minute.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Stoke owns the 10th spot on the EPL table with 26 points while Manchester&#8217;s defeat keeps them on 29 points, an amount that puts them in a two-way tie for\u00a0sixth place with Watford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Cameron went 75 minutes to help Stoke City claim a 2-0 triumph over Manchester United on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39984,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1411],"tags":[891,383,1412,500,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gEOFF-2.png?fit=600%2C414","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39986,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983\/revisions\/39986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}