{"id":11960,"date":"2011-02-20T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/20\/nekounam-brace-as-osasuna-trounce-espanyol\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:19:16","slug":"nekounam-brace-as-osasuna-trounce-espanyol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/20\/nekounam-brace-as-osasuna-trounce-espanyol\/","title":{"rendered":"Nekounam brace as Osasuna trounce Espanyol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Neko-goal1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Neko-goal1.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"410\" \/>PFDC &#8211; PAMPLONA, <strong>Javad Nekounam led Osasuna to an impressive 4-0 thrashing of Espanyol Barcelona in the first game of new headcoach Mendilibar on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Masoud Shojaei also contributed to the win with one assist.<\/p>\n<p>Mendilibar, who had replaced Camacho last week, put his trust in both Iranians as he started Nekounam in central defensive and Masoud Shojaei in offensive midfield and should be rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>Nekounam scored the opening goal, heading a corner kick into the net after just 14 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian national team skipper doubled the lead ten minutes into second half, converting a penalty kick after a handball.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes from time Lolo added a third before Shojaei assisted Soriano&#8217;s 4-0 two minutes before the end of regular time.<\/p>\n<p>Both Iranian players showed impressive displays, Shojaei earning standing ovations when being substituted after 89 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, Ali Karimi, still uncapped since moving to German Bundesliga a few weeks ago, was not in the 18-men-roster as Schalke suffered a 1-2 defeat to Borussia Moenchengladbach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; PAMPLONA, Javad Nekounam led Osasuna to an impressive 4-0 thrashing of Espanyol Barcelona&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":6560,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}