{"id":10185,"date":"2017-09-14T06:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T06:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2017-09-14T06:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T06:39:04","slug":"ronaldo-fires-holders-real-to-easy-victory-over-apoel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/09\/14\/ronaldo-fires-holders-real-to-easy-victory-over-apoel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo fires holders Real to easy victory over APOEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An imperious Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice on his first competitive start of the season as Real Madrid beat APOEL Nicosia 3-0 on Wednesday to get their quest for a third successive Champions League crown off on the right note.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo has been banned from domestic football since August for pushing a referee and only needed 12 minutes to get back amongst the goals in the competition where he is the all-time top scorer, meeting Gareth Bale&#8217;s low cross to arrow home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese struck the underside of the crossbar early in the second half then moments later hit his 109th Champions League goal by powering home from the spot after APOEL&#8217;s Spanish defender Roberto Lago was harshly penalised for handball.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Captain Sergio Ramos rubber-stamped what was a routine victory for Madrid over the Cypriot champions with a scrappy overhead kick in the 61st minute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo was denied another penalty and a potential hat-trick when he was tripped in the area but his appeals went unnoticed, while late in the game he had a goal chalked off for a clear offside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An imperious Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice on his first competitive start of the season as Real Madrid beat APOEL Nicosia 3-0 on Wednesday to get their quest for a third successive Champions League crown off on the right note. &nbsp; Ronaldo has been banned from domestic football since August for pushing a referee and only needed 12 minutes to get back amongst the goals in the competition where he is the all-time top scorer, meeting Gareth Bale&rsquo;s low cross to arrow home. &nbsp; The Portuguese struck the underside of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10187,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions\/10187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}