{"id":1217152,"date":"2022-10-06T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/22-23-uefa-champions-league-team-of-the-week-round-3-reece-in-defence-di-maria-mane-in-attack\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T08:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:31:23","slug":"22-23-uefa-champions-league-team-of-the-week-round-3-reece-in-defence-di-maria-mane-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/22-23-uefa-champions-league-team-of-the-week-round-3-reece-in-defence-di-maria-mane-in-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"22\/23 UEFA Champions League Team of the Week – Round 3: Reece In Defence; Di Maria & Mane In Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All round outstanding displays from goalkeepers, midfielders and forwards in this week’s UEFA Champions League round 3 of group stage fixtures – put together a decisive Team.<\/p>\n

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Real Madrid and Juventus lead the way with two featured players as Adrien Rabiot, particularly standouts.<\/p>\n

Following his showmanship in Juventus’ 3-1 win over Maccabi Haifa – bagged a brace -completed a key pass, 35 accurate passes – 13 won duels and 7 successful tackles – he was rated at 9.6 more than every other player – according to sofascore statistics.<\/p>\n

A midfield pack of four, the 27-year-old Frenchman was seen with Rodrygo, Riyad Mahrez <\/strong>and Jude Bellingham.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Put up a fierce performance in the attacking force at Allianz Stadium, Angel Di Maria’s hat-trick of assists alongside his six key passes and three created scoring chances was highly recognized – earning him a spot for the first time this season after round 3 alongside Sadio Mane<\/strong> and Giacomo <\/strong>Raspadori<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With solid displays and delivery from the right-back, Chelsea’s Reece James emerged as the lead star in a three-man defensive unit<\/span> after scoring and assisting against AC Milan – paired with Leonardo Balerdi<\/strong> and David Alaba<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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FC Porto shot-stopper Diego Costa – command from the goal post following his heroic saves (6) that denied Bayer Leverkusen on multiple accounts a penalty save in their 2-0 win.<\/p>\n

The UEFA Champions League Team of the Week After Round 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diego Costa (FC Porto)<\/p>\n

Defenders<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reece James (Chelsea)<\/p>\n

David Alaba (Real Madrid)<\/p>\n

Leonardo Balerdi (Marseille)<\/p>\n

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Midfielders<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rodrygo (Real Madrid)<\/p>\n

Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City)<\/p>\n

Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund)<\/p>\n

Adrian Rabiot (Juventus)<\/p>\n

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Forwards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Angel Di Maria (Juventus)<\/p>\n

Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli)<\/p>\n

Sadio Mane (Bayern Munich)<\/p>\n

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All round outstanding displays from goalkeepers, midfielders and forwards in this week’s UEFA Champions League round 3 of group stage fixtures – put together a decisive Team. Real Madrid and Juventus lead the way with two featured players as Adrien Rabiot, particularly standouts. Following his showmanship in Juventus’ 3-1 win over Maccabi Haifa – bagged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1255,774,9913,674,1279,435,17902,97,5340,602],"class_list":["post-1217152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-attack","tag-champions","tag-defence","tag-league","tag-mane","tag-maria","tag-reece","tag-team","tag-uefa","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217152","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=1217152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}