{"id":1242385,"date":"2022-11-02T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/02\/zakaria-grabs-debut-goal-as-chelsea-beat-dinamo-zagreb\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:52:10","slug":"zakaria-grabs-debut-goal-as-chelsea-beat-dinamo-zagreb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/02\/zakaria-grabs-debut-goal-as-chelsea-beat-dinamo-zagreb\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakaria grabs debut goal as Chelsea beat Dinamo Zagreb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/denis-zakaria-points-221102g1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"denis-zakaria-points-221102g1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Chelsea midfielder Denis Zakaria scored on his debut as his side finished their Champions League Group E campaign with a 2-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, topping the group and ending the European campaign for the Croatians.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea, who had secured group victory with a game to spare, finished on 13 points, three ahead of runners-up AC Milan, who beat third-placed Red Bull Salzburg 4-0. Dinamo finished bottom on four points, two behind Salzburg.<\/p>\n<p>Making his first start under Graham Potter, keeper Edouard Mendy got off to a dreadful start when he had to pick the ball out of the Chelsea net in the seventh minute after Bruno Petkovic gave the visitors the lead with a header.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea were soon level, Raheem Sterling making the most of a slip by Dino Peric 11 minutes later to cut inside and fire home with his left foot.<\/p>\n<p>Playing his first game since joining on loan from Juventus on September 1, Switzerland international Zakaria put the Blues ahead on the half-hour mark with a perfectly-placed shot after good work by Mason Mount to create the chance.<\/p>\n<p>In a worrying moment for England boss Gareth Southgate, Chelsea fullback Ben Chillwell pulled up with what appeared to be a hamstring injury in second-half injury time, hopping towards the dressing room helped by medical staff as the game finished 2-1.<\/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=\"SIsbRJ3AVjE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Qatar 2022: Ghana will set new record \u2013 Black Stars Goalkeepers Trainer (2-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SIsbRJ3AVjE?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>Chelsea midfielder Denis Zakaria scored on his debut as his side finished their Champions League Group E campaign with a 2-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, topping the group and ending the European campaign for the Croatians. Chelsea, who had secured group victory with a game to spare, finished on 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[193,58,3210,25326,1187,3864,25327,28438],"class_list":["post-1242385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beat","tag-chelsea","tag-debut","tag-dinamo","tag-goal","tag-grabs","tag-zagreb","tag-zakaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242385","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=1242385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}