{"id":314054,"date":"2025-12-13T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314054\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:08:07","slug":"norwich-city-2-1-southampton-makama-double-gives-canaries-vital-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314054\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City 2-1 Southampton: Makama double gives Canaries vital win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jovon Makama&#8217;s controversial 61st-minute winner stopped in-form Southampton in their tracks and gave Norwich a vital leg-up in their Championship relegation fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saints were furious, with the ball appearing to strike the 21-year-old&#8217;s hand on its way into the net, but the goal &#8211; Makama&#8217;s second of the game &#8211; stood to give the Canaries back-to-back home wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If there were question marks over the winner, injury-hit Norwich deserved their victory for an energetic second-half performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was only Southampton&#8217;s second defeat in eight matches, with the Saints left to rue Adam Armstrong&#8217;s first-half penalty miss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to follow&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jovon Makama&#8217;s controversial 61st-minute winner stopped in-form Southampton in their tracks and gave Norwich a vital leg-up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-314054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}