{"id":1186025,"date":"2022-08-21T21:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T21:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/21\/leeds-united-stun-chelsea-in-three-goal-victory-at-elland-road\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T21:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T21:33:27","slug":"leeds-united-stun-chelsea-in-three-goal-victory-at-elland-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/21\/leeds-united-stun-chelsea-in-three-goal-victory-at-elland-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United stun Chelsea in three-goal victory at Elland Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"409\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1_GettyImages-1416437371.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"1_GettyImages-1416437371\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Leeds enjoyed their best result in the top-flight for some time on Sunday afternoon, thrashing Chelsea 3-0 in front of a raucous Elland Road crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea had the better of the early play, with Raheem Sterling having a goal ruled out for a narrow offside and putting another effort just wide, but Leeds grew into the game as the half wore on.<\/p>\n<p>And they were gifted an opener just after the half-hour mark when Edouard Mendy tried a turn in his six-yard box, only to be robbed by Brenden Aaronson, who rounded him before tapping home.<\/p>\n<p>A second came soon afterwards when Jack Harrison put in a perfect free kick from the left flank which Rodrigo flicked a header at and the ball flew inside the far corner of the net.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>From there on, Leeds put on a show for their fans and a third came midway through the second half when Rodrigo got a touch on Dan James\u2019 cross and Harrison was on hand to turn home from close range.<\/p>\n<p>To add to Chelsea\u2019s woes Kalidou Koulibaly was sent off for a second needless booking with five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NZv0_HSLYp4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NZv0_HSLYp4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds enjoyed their best result in the top-flight for some time on Sunday afternoon, thrashing Chelsea 3-0 in front of a raucous Elland Road crowd. Chelsea had the better of the early play, with Raheem Sterling having a goal ruled out for a narrow offside and putting another effort just wide, but Leeds grew into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1186027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[58,24012,5280,1478,1188,24013,2822,1331],"class_list":["post-1186025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-elland","tag-leeds","tag-road","tag-stun","tag-threegoal","tag-united","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}