{"id":1204848,"date":"2022-09-15T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/cl-valverde-asensio-strike-late-as-real-madrid-beat-rb-leipzig\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:21:40","slug":"cl-valverde-asensio-strike-late-as-real-madrid-beat-rb-leipzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/cl-valverde-asensio-strike-late-as-real-madrid-beat-rb-leipzig\/","title":{"rendered":"CL:\u00a0Valverde, Asensio strike late as Real Madrid\u00a0beat RB Leipzig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"384\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/federico-valverde-220914-celebrates-g-1050-696x384.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"federico-valverde-220914-celebrates-g-1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Real Madrid needed two late goals to beat Leipzig as boss Carlo Ancelotti became the second manager to win 100 Champions League games.<\/p>\n<p>Leipzig missed a host of good chances with Christopher Nkunku denied by Thibaut Courtois twice.<\/p>\n<p>Federico Valverde gave Real an 80th-minute lead from Vinicius Jr\u2019s pass.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>And Marco Asensio scored an excellent first-time finish from the edge of the box from Toni Kroos\u2019 free-kick to seal the win for the European champions.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time they have won their opening two Champions League games since 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>Only Manchester United legend Alex Ferguson (102) has won more games in the tournament than Real boss Ancelotti.<\/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=\"wPkqmxjMQcM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (14-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wPkqmxjMQcM?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>Real Madrid needed two late goals to beat Leipzig as boss Carlo Ancelotti became the second manager to win 100 Champions League games. Leipzig missed a host of good chances with Christopher Nkunku denied by Thibaut Courtois twice. Federico Valverde gave Real an 80th-minute lead from Vinicius Jr\u2019s pass. And Marco Asensio scored an excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22556,25744,749,8432,23024,555,186],"class_list":["post-1204848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asensio","tag-clvalverde","tag-late","tag-leipzig","tag-madridbeat","tag-real","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204848","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=1204848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}