{"id":1196448,"date":"2022-09-01T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/2022-23-august-european-u21-team-of-month-garcia-saliba-pedri-musiala-martinelli-balogun-lee\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:02:39","slug":"2022-23-august-european-u21-team-of-month-garcia-saliba-pedri-musiala-martinelli-balogun-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/2022-23-august-european-u21-team-of-month-garcia-saliba-pedri-musiala-martinelli-balogun-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"2022\/23 August European U21 Team of Month: Garcia; Saliba; Pedri; Musiala; Martinelli; Balogun; Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Monthly overview of the European best youngsters in the top 5 leagues [La Liga, Premier League, Serie A, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga], here is the top-rated XI based on their performances.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/a0d08175756d4d0b993850e4265f2797\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Per August, Arsenal and Barcelona emerged as the only sides with more than one player featured in the U21 Team of the Month, while Bayern Munich star <strong>Jamal Musiala<\/strong> took home the Player of the Month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1893c64b2cea4774981dcc57e709bc0b\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeeper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Georgia and Valencia&#8217;s 21-year-old shot-stopper Giorgi Mamardashvili was named in the goal post with one clean sheet to his name last month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/565ba1e278694885bf155ff5bf059bdd\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In lethral lines &#8211; Empoli&#8217;s <strong>Fabiano Parisi<\/strong> and Nottingham Forest star <strong>Neco Williams<\/strong> were deployed, while Barcelona&#8217;s <strong>Eric Garcia<\/strong> and Arsenal&#8217;s <strong>William Saliba<\/strong> in the heart of the defence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/47e3ff9d3527478388a998b0d96cd9a8\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ff71c0b21cb64e5fbafe51b312148e6f\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal&#8217;s <strong>Gabriel Martinelli<\/strong> with 3 goals makes it to the sides of the midfield equilibrium to Lorient star <strong>Dango Ouattara<\/strong> who registered two assists during the same period. <strong>Pedri<\/strong> and <strong>Jamal Musiala<\/strong> in midfield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8ead31baf2d0415786d00665c0ec28bb\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/f2838556c2eb42018dba1b13dc714b08\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Attack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two lead attackers &#8211; Reims&#8217;s top-scorer <strong>Folarin Balogun<\/strong> pairs RCD Mallorca&#8217;s, <strong>Kang-in<\/strong> <strong>Lee<\/strong>. Balogun scored 4 goals alongside an assist last month, likewise with Lee a goal and an assist.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BerBea-nt (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBundesliga<br \/>\nEuropean U21<br \/>\nMartinelli<br \/>\nPedri<br \/>\nSaliba<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monthly overview of the European best youngsters in the top 5 leagues [La Liga, Premier League, Serie A, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga], here is the top-rated XI based on their performances. Per August, Arsenal and Barcelona emerged as the only sides with more than one player featured in the U21 Team of the Month, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9255,40,4107,24947,147,17516,2754,24948,20018,22630,97,24949],"class_list":["post-1196448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-august","tag-balogun","tag-european","tag-garcia","tag-lee","tag-martinelli","tag-month","tag-musiala","tag-pedri","tag-saliba","tag-team","tag-u21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196448","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=1196448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}