{"id":227619,"date":"2022-10-10T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/?p=227619"},"modified":"2022-10-10T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:06:45","slug":"cebu-reclaims-top-spot-edges-kaya-iloilo-in-1st-home-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=227619","title":{"rendered":"Cebu Reclaims Top Spot, Edges Kaya Iloilo In 1st Home Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dynamic Herb Cebu reclaimed the top spot in the Philippines Football League (PFL) with a 3-2 win against Kaya Iloilo on Sunday, its first match on its own turf, the Dynamic Herb Stadium in Talisay City.<\/p>\n<p>Mert Altinoz&#8217;s hat-trick got the better of Robert Lopez Mendy&#8217;s brace as Cebu continued its hot run in the first part of its four-match home stand.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy put on an early silencer to the soldout crowd by scoring the opening goal in the 18th minute to put Kaya Iloilo ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Altinoz, however, put Cebu level with Kaya Iloilo in the 33rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>He then opened the second half with back-to-back goals, one just seconds into the restart and another in the 50th minute, to give Cebu a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy kept Kaya Iloilo in the match with an 83rd-minute goal, but the club could not find at least the equalizer in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Cebu has now won five straight matches after a winless spell in its first three games and is back at No. 1 in the standings with 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Kaya Iloilo, on the other hand, lost for the second time in the season and dropped to third place with 18 points. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dynamic Herb Cebu brought home the championship award for the Philippines Football League against Kaya Iloilo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}