{"id":15469,"date":"2023-09-20T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15469"},"modified":"2023-09-20T19:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:08:16","slug":"psg-get-better-of-dortmund-in-champions-league-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15469","title":{"rendered":"PSG Get Better Of Dortmund In Champions League Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Paris Saint-Germain got their Champions League campaign off to a winning start on Tuesday as a Kylian Mbappe penalty set them up for a 2-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund at the Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The French champions had dominated the first half without overly troubling the Dortmund defence, but they went ahead four minutes after the break when Mbappe scored a spot-kick awarded for a Niklas Suele handball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Achraf Hakimi added a memorable second, and PSG could have won the Group F encounter by a far more handsome margin in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The result immediately puts them in control of the group, after AC Milan and Newcastle United drew 0-0 earlier, and coach Luis Enrique will hope they can build on this performance when they visit the English side next in a fortnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dortmund, meanwhile, were nowhere near their best and must improve when they entertain Milan next in what is an unforgiving section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain got their Champions League campaign off to a winning start on Tuesday as a Kylian Mbappe penalty set them up for a 2-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund at the Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[221,2302,714],"class_list":["post-15469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-dortmund","tag-psg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469"}],"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=15469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15471,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469\/revisions\/15471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}