{"id":11259,"date":"2023-01-21T22:08:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T22:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11259"},"modified":"2023-01-21T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T22:08:19","slug":"alexandre-lacazette-scored-a-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11259","title":{"rendered":"Lacazette Hat-trick Fires Lyon Into French Cup Last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Alexandre Lacazette scored a hat-trick as Lyon eased into the last 16 of the French Cup on Saturday with a 3-0 win over fifth-tier side Chambery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 31-year-old striker netted twice in the first half and completed his first treble since August 2016 midway through the second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe often talk about the magic of the Cup but we\u2019re happy it didn\u2019t work out for Chambery,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was a morale-boosting win for Lyon boss Laurent Blanc who has seen his side slip to ninth in the Ligue 1 table, 12 points outside the European places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chambery brought on 48-year-old former Algeria international Nassim Akrour in the 63rd minute but the veteran could not inspire a comeback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Friday, Marseille extended their winning streak to eight matches with a 1-0 victory against Rennes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Paris Saint-Germain will take on amateur sixth-tier club Pays de Cassel on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Lacazette scored a hat-trick as Lyon eased into the last 16 of the French Cup on Saturday with a 3-0 win over fifth-tier side Chambery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6204,6206,6205,4265],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-alexandre-lacazette","tag-chambery","tag-french-cup","tag-hat-trick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259"}],"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=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11261,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions\/11261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}