{"id":1217008,"date":"2022-10-05T21:51:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/haaland-nets-brace-as-man-city-thump-fc-copenhagen\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T21:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:51:45","slug":"haaland-nets-brace-as-man-city-thump-fc-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/haaland-nets-brace-as-man-city-thump-fc-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland nets brace as Man City thump FC Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3465603-70697228-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"3465603-70697228-2560-1440\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Erling Haaland continued his irrepressible form as Manchester City took a significant step towards the Champions League knockout stages with an emphatic 5-0 victory over FC Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian hitman opened the scoring with a sweet first-time finish on seven minutes before doubling the home side\u2019s advantage with a simple tap-in just past the half hour.<\/p>\n<p>City then made it three going into the break when the unfortunate Davit Khotcholava diverted Sergio Gomez\u2019s shot into his own net.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Haaland was replaced at the interval with his job already done, but City continued to dominate and Riyad Mahrez marked his 200th appearance for the club with an ice-cool penalty on 55 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Alvarez then made it five with 14 minutes left when he polished off a slick team move.<\/p>\n<p>The result sees Pep Guardiola\u2019s men top Group G with three wins from three. Borussia Dortmund are second on six points with FC Copenhagen and Sevilla on a point apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, City host Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday before making the trip to FC Copenhagen on Tuesday.<\/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=\"fXLQxF519Pg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Ahosepe on Adom TV (5-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fXLQxF519Pg?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>Erling Haaland continued his irrepressible form as Manchester City took a significant step towards the Champions League knockout stages with an emphatic 5-0 victory over FC Copenhagen. The Norwegian hitman opened the scoring with a sweet first-time finish on seven minutes before doubling the home side\u2019s advantage with a simple tap-in just past the half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7562,1761,20050,9717,697,5941,3343],"class_list":["post-1217008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brace","tag-city","tag-copenhagen","tag-haaland","tag-man","tag-nets","tag-thump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217008","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=1217008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}