{"id":15473,"date":"2023-09-20T19:13:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15473"},"modified":"2023-09-20T19:13:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:13:24","slug":"ucl-alvarez-scores-twice-in-champions-man-city-comeback-win-against-red-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15473","title":{"rendered":"UCL: Alvarez Scores Twice In Champions, Man City Comeback Win Against Red Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Two second-half strikes from Julian Alvarez helped defending champions, Manchester City come from behind to win 3-1 against Serbian champions Red Star Belgrade at the Etihad Stadium Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Red Star threatened a famous win when Osman Bukari put them in front at the end of the first half.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But City took less than 90 seconds to level after the restart as Alvarez raced onto Erling Haaland\u2019s return pass, rounded Red Star keeper Omri Glazer with a superb piece of deception, and squeezed the ball home from a tight angle while still running at full speed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Glazer spoiled an otherwise superb performance 13 minutes later when he went to punch Alvarez\u2019s free-kick away from danger but instead got only the faintest touch on the ball which did not divert it away from the far corner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Spain midfielder, Rodri who scored the winner against Inter Milan four months ago ensured City took a successful first step towards this season\u2019s final at Wembley by scoring their third as he advanced unchecked into the Red Star box and guided a precise shot into the bottom corner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two second-half strikes from Julian Alvarez helped defending champions, Manchester City come from behind to win 3-1 against Serbian champions Red Star Belgrade at the Etihad Stadium Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1592,518,3390],"class_list":["post-15473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-man-city","tag-red-star","tag-ucl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473"}],"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=15473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15475,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473\/revisions\/15475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}