{"id":35021,"date":"2024-10-23T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T00:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=35021"},"modified":"2024-10-23T03:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T00:43:07","slug":"aston-villa-defeats-bologna-in-the-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/aston-villa-defeats-bologna-in-the-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa Defeats Bologna in the Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aston Villa continued their perfect start in their first UEFA Champions League appearance in 41 years by defeating Bologna 2-0 on Tuesday, thanks to second-half goals from John McGinn and Jhon Dur\u00e1n.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Unai Emery\u2019s side created several chances before McGinn opened the scoring in the 55th minute with a free-kick that sailed over the players\u2019 heads into the far corner. After a VAR check for a potential handball, the goal was confirmed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dur\u00e1n, who had led Villa to victory over Bayern Munich with a late-game performance three weeks earlier, doubled Villa\u2019s lead in the 64th minute after controlling a cross from Morgan Rogers and finishing into the bottom corner.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">With this win, Aston Villa temporarily tops the group in the elite European club competition with nine points, while Bologna sits with one point after one draw and two losses.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa continued their perfect start in their first UEFA Champions League appearance in 41 years by defeating Bologna 2-0 on Tuesday, thanks to second-half goals from John McGinn and Jhon Dur\u00e1n. Unai Emery\u2019s side created several chances before McGinn opened the scoring in the 55th minute with a free-kick that sailed over the players\u2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35022,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021\/revisions\/35022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}