{"id":223060,"date":"2022-10-16T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=223060"},"modified":"2022-10-16T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:32:36","slug":"sacramento-republic-clinches-home-playoff-game-with-4-0-drubbing-of-san-diego-loyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sacramento-republic-clinches-home-playoff-game-with-4-0-drubbing-of-san-diego-loyal","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Republic clinches home playoff game with 4-0 drubbing of San Diego Loyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento Republic FC manager Mark Briggs spoke to his team at midfield after Saturday night&#8217;s regular season finale and held four fingers in the air. The significance: four more wins and his team would be league champions. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s a four-game season,&#8221; team captain Conor Donovan said. &#8220;We have experience in that and we&#8217;re going to lean on that.&#8221; That experience stems largely from the club&#8217;s run earlier this year to the U.S. Open Cup final &#8212; a seven-game marathon that overlapped the USL season starting in April. It included beating a trio of MLS teams before losing to Orlando City on Sept. 7 in a game that was tabbed the biggest in club history. On Saturday, Sacramento had one of its better performances of 2022, thumping San Diego Loyal 4-0 in front of another sold-out crowd at Heart Health Park. The road team, which had little to play for, having already wrapped up the No. 2 seed in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento Republic FC finished off its regular season in style with a 4-0 win to earn a home playoff game next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1],"tags":[142,147,138,58],"class_list":["post-223060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mls","category-news","tag-champions-league","tag-mls","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}