{"id":10269,"date":"2022-09-06T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2022-09-06T22:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:38:46","slug":"haaland-scores-twice-as-man-city-thrash-sevilla-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10269","title":{"rendered":"Haaland Scores Twice As Man. City Thrash Sevilla 4 \u2013 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/erling-haaland\/profil\/spieler\/418560\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erling Haaland<\/a> scored twice as Manchester City opened their Champions League campaign by thrashing a dismal Sevilla side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Haaland\u2019s ninth goal in five games set City on their way, with the Norwegian forward tapping in from Kevin de Bruyne\u2019s superb driven cross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added to his tally after the break when he was again on hand to score from close range after home goalkeeper Yassine Bounou parried Phil Foden\u2019s shot into his path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In between, England midfielder Foden had given City a healthy cushion in their Group G opener, teasing his marker Nemanja Gudelj before sweeping a left-foot effort into the bottom-right corner of the net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ruben Dias underlined the gulf in class between the Premier League champions and the side that finished fourth in La Liga last term late on, side-footing Joao Cancelo\u2019s cross into the middle of an empty net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The manner of City\u2019s victory and final scoreline was not unduly flattering, with the visitors dominant throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Julen Lopetegui\u2019s side looked short of attacking ideas and bereft of confidence after their winless start to the La Liga season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With John Stones and Kyle Walker missing because of minor injuries City manager Pep Guardiola handed a debut to Switzerland defender Manuel Akanji, but aside from a wild first-half effort from Alejandro Gomez, the hosts barely threatened.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland scored twice as Manchester City opened their Champions League campaign by thrashing a dismal Sevilla side. Haaland\u2019s ninth goal in five games set City on their way, with the Norwegian forward tapping in from Kevin de Bruyne\u2019s superb driven cross. He added to his tally after the break when he was again on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3456,1592,1444,3390],"class_list":["post-10269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-erling-haaland","tag-man-city","tag-sevilla","tag-ucl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10271,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions\/10271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}