{"id":11983,"date":"2023-02-02T09:59:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=276173"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:59:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:29:33","slug":"messi-back-on-the-scoresheet-as-psg-hit-3-past-montpellier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/messi-back-on-the-scoresheet-as-psg-hit-3-past-montpellier\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi back on the scoresheet as PSG hit 3 past Montpellier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ligue 1 mid-week game was good for the league leaders Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain played against Montpellier FC in the Ligue 1 on Wednesday night, 2nd February. Lionel Messi, Fabian Ruiz, and Emery were on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n<p>PSG is one of the teams favourites to lift this year\u2019s UEFA Champions League but they need to work hard for that. After drawing and losing a game in the Ligue 1, the table toppers finally got a victory. The visitors got a penalty in the 11th minute which was missed by Kylian Mbappe. No goals were scored in the first half and Fabian Ruiz started off the scoring in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi followed Fabian Ruiz to double the lead for PSG in the game. After Montpellier FC pulled one goal back in the 89th minute, PSG\u2019s Emery scored a late winner to win it for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>PSG are now 5 points clear at the top of the Ligue 1 points table. They need to keep winning matches like this to lift the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain defeated Montpellier FC by 3-1 in the Ligue 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":34423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3508,487,568,447],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fabian-ruiz","tag-lionel-messi","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-psg"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}