{"id":37542,"date":"2019-09-17T17:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37542"},"modified":"2019-09-17T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T01:24:52","slug":"zenit-forward-sardar-azmoun-scores-first-goal-of-champions-league-season-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/17\/zenit-forward-sardar-azmoun-scores-first-goal-of-champions-league-season-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenit forward Sardar Azmoun scores first goal of Champions League season [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RT &#8211; LYON, <strong>The honor of scoring the first goal of the 2019\/20 UEFA Champions League season went to Russia\u2019s Zenit St. Petersburg and their Iranian striker Sardar Azmoun.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azmoun handed his team the lead at Lyon in the 41st minute of their Group G clash, playing a lovely one-two with strike partner Artem Dzyuba on the edge of the box before slotting past Anthony Lopes with the outside of his boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal from the 24-year-old Iranian international meant Russian champions Zenit headed in 1-0 to the good at half-time at Parc Olympique Lyonnais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second half started badly for Zenit and Azmoun, however, as he was forced off injured shortly after the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His replacement Magomed Ozdoev then fouled Lyon winger Memphis Depay to concede a penalty just three minutes after coming on, with the Dutchman converting the spot-kick to level the scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Zenit weathered some late Lyon pressure to earn a creditable draw, in what was their first game back in Europe\u2019s premier club competition after a three-year break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their next Champions League meeting is with Portuguese side Benfica at home before traveling to Germany to play RB Leipzig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AzCA8FyXRM8\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT &#8211; LYON, The honor of scoring the first goal of the 2019\/20 UEFA Champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1852,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37542","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37546,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37542\/revisions\/37546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}