{"id":1206767,"date":"2022-09-19T05:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/messi-grabs-winner-as-psg-beat-lyon-in-ligue-1\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T05:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:46:48","slug":"messi-grabs-winner-as-psg-beat-lyon-in-ligue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/messi-grabs-winner-as-psg-beat-lyon-in-ligue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi grabs winner as PSG beat Lyon in Ligue 1"},"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\/3456282-70510808-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Neymar and Lionel Messi celebrate Image credit: Getty Images\" title=\"Neymar and Lionel Messi celebrate  Image credit: Getty Images\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neymar and Lionel Messi celebrate<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lionel Messi dazzled as Paris Saint-Germain dismantled rivals Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 at the Groupama Stadium to go two points clear at the top of Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p>PSG dominated the early proceedings and went a goal ahead after just five minutes courtesy of a magnificent strike from Messi \u2013 his fifth of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The second half saw Messi almost double his tally, but the seven-time Balon d\u2019Or winner saw his dinked attempt heroically cleared off the line by Castello Lukeba.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>It is Lyon\u2019s third straight league defeat \u2013 their worst run in Ligue 1 in four years \u2013 and will likely see the scrutiny of manager Peter Bosz intensify over the international break.<\/p>\n<p>The three points see PSG consolidate their position at the top of Ligue 1 while Lyon, who at the start of the season were much fancied to challenge for the title, now languish in sixth, nine points from the summit.<\/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=\"0VoBSA5J0uA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our mother abandons us because of a man - Brothers Cry - Obra on Adom TV.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0VoBSA5J0uA?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>Neymar and Lionel Messi celebrate Image credit: Getty Images Lionel Messi dazzled as Paris Saint-Germain dismantled rivals Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 at the Groupama Stadium to go two points clear at the top of Ligue 1. PSG dominated the early proceedings and went a goal ahead after just five minutes courtesy of a magnificent strike from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[193,3864,11936,14550,2297,5118,2852],"class_list":["post-1206767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beat","tag-grabs","tag-ligue","tag-lyon","tag-messi","tag-psg","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206767","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=1206767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}