{"id":1200584,"date":"2022-09-08T08:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/lewandowski-hits-hat-trick-as-barcelona-beat-plzen\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:52:33","slug":"lewandowski-hits-hat-trick-as-barcelona-beat-plzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/lewandowski-hits-hat-trick-as-barcelona-beat-plzen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowski hits\u00a0hat-trick as Barcelona beat Plzen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3449128-70367728-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Robert Lewandowski Image credit: Getty Images\" title=\"Robert Lewandowski  Image credit: Getty Images\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Lewandowski<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Robert Lewandowski scored a brilliant hat-trick as Barcelona eased to a win that was both expected and impressive in a game where Plzen were blown away by their hosts\u2019 creativity and speed.<\/p>\n<p>Barca got after Plzen from the off and on 13 minutes went ahead when Franck Kessie nodded home after Jules Kounde won first contact following a corner.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, it looked like a case of how many, but when Jhon Mosquera spun Andreas Christensen and Christensen pulled him down, the ref pointed to the spot and drew his red card. But a look at VAR showed Christensen\u2019s foul to have followed Mosquera\u2019s elbow, so the decision was reversed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, a lovely finish from Lewandowski put Barca 2-0 up, and though Jan Sykora pulled one back for Plzen, Lewandowski headed his second and his team\u2019s third in first-half injury-time, following great work from Ousmane Dembele.<\/p>\n<p>You feared for Plzen when they emerged after the break, and sure enough, brilliant goals by Lewandowski and Torres, on as sub, put them further behind. But that was last of the scoring, though you suspect there will be other teams who feel the force of Barca\u2019s attack this season.<\/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=\"3NRSJUQt324\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paramount Chief dismayed sea defence, sports complex and fishing harbor are at standstill (7-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3NRSJUQt324?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>Robert Lewandowski Image credit: Getty Images Robert Lewandowski scored a brilliant hat-trick as Barcelona eased to a win that was both expected and impressive in a game where Plzen were blown away by their hosts\u2019 creativity and speed. Barca got after Plzen from the off and on 13 minutes went ahead when Franck Kessie nodded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[656,193,25400,2108,25401],"class_list":["post-1200584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-beat","tag-hitshattrick","tag-lewandowski","tag-plzen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200584","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=1200584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}