{"id":11662,"date":"2023-02-02T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11662"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:42:48","slug":"bayern-thrash-mainz-in-german-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11662","title":{"rendered":"Cancelo Helps Bayern Thrash Mainz In German Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"viewer-title\">New Bayern Munich signing Joao Cancelo set up a first-half goal to help his side secure a first win of 2023 with a 4-0 triumph at 10-man Mainz in the German Cup on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"narrow-container\">\n<div class=\"story-text ng-star-inserted\">\n<div class=\"story-content ng-star-inserted\">\n<div class=\"content-inner-html ng-star-inserted\">\n<article>Cancelo, who joined the German champions on loan from Man City on Tuesday, made an immediate impact, floating in a lofted cross to Cameroon striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, who hammered home from close range.Winless in their first three league games of 2023, Bayern entered the game under significant pressure to advance to the German Cup quarter-finals for the first time in three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Choupo-Moting\u2019s 17th-minute strike settled the visitors\u2019 nerves and they had a second on the 30-minute mark when Bayern veteran Thomas Mueller found teenage forward Jamal Musiala, who slammed the ball across the face of goal to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Leroy Sane scored the third goal with one minute of the first half remaining, sliding in a looped assist from former Mainz forward Choupo-Moting.<\/p>\n<p>Choupo-Moting\u2019s goal and assist kept alive a remarkable record for the Hamburg-born striker, who now has nine goals and five assists in five German Cup matches for Bayern.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian wing-back Alphonso Davies, who came on for Cancelo with 20 minutes to go, added a fourth late in the game, heading in a floated assist from Dutch centre-back Matthijs de Ligt.<\/p>\n<p>Mainz had a number of half chances in an increasingly fiery second half which saw centre-back Alexander Hack sent off for a second yellow card, along with Bo Svensson, who was shown a straight red for arguing with the assistant referee moments before Davies\u2019 goal.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Bayern Munich signing Joao Cancelo set up a first-half goal to help his side secure a first win of 2023 with a 4-0 triumph at 10-man Mainz in the German Cup on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5321,6339,6340],"class_list":["post-11662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bayern","tag-cancelo","tag-mainz-german-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662"}],"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=11662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11664,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662\/revisions\/11664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}