{"id":4301,"date":"2019-10-22T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/watch-sterling-blasts-11-minute-treble-as-man-city-run-riot\/"},"modified":"2019-10-22T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T21:08:00","slug":"watch-sterling-blasts-11-minute-treble-as-man-city-run-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/watch-sterling-blasts-11-minute-treble-as-man-city-run-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Sterling blasts 11-minute treble as Man. City run riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Sterling blasts 11-minute treble as Man. City run riot<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-attachments.timesofmalta.com\/\" alt=\"Raheem Sterling celebrates his goal with Riyad Mahrez (right) and Phil Foden.\" title=\"Raheem Sterling celebrates his goal with Riyad Mahrez (right) and Phil Foden.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>                                                    Raheem Sterling hit a brilliant 11-minute hat-trick as Manchester City inflicted a 5-1 thrashing on Atalanta in the Champions League on Tuesday.<br \/>\nPep Guardiola\u2019s side were rocked by Ruslan Malinovsky\u2019s first half penalty at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>But City responded superbly as Sergio Aguero struck twice before the interval.<br \/>\nSterling had provided the assists for both of Aguero\u2019s goals, but the England winger was just getting warmed up.<br \/>\nAfter the interval, Sterling struck three times to complete a personal masterclass that underlined his rise in the Guardiola era from enigmatic playmaker to lethal finisher.<br \/>\nSterling has emerged as City\u2019s driving force over the last 18 months and his second hat-trick of the season confirmed his place among the world\u2019s best players.<br \/>\n[attach id=782034 size=&#8221;large&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; type=&#8221;image&#8221;][\/attach]<br \/>\nThe only frustration for Guardiola was a late red card for young midfielder Phil Foden.<br \/>\nCity\u2019s third successive Group C victory leaves them top of the table, five points clear of second placed Dinamo Zagreb with three games left.<br \/>\nAtalanta, making their Champions League debut this season, are still searching for their first point after a third consecutive&#8230;<br \/>\nSource: TOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Sterling blasts 11-minute treble as Man. City run riot Raheem Sterling hit a brilliant 11-minute hat-trick as Manchester City inflicted a 5-1 thrashing on Atalanta in the Champions League on Tuesday. Pep Guardiola\u2019s side&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-malta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}