{"id":26822,"date":"2021-06-04T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=26822"},"modified":"2021-06-04T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T10:24:20","slug":"spirited-greece-hold-top-ranked-belgium-to-a-1-1-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/06\/04\/spirited-greece-hold-top-ranked-belgium-to-a-1-1-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirited Greece hold top ranked Belgium to a 1-1 draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header pos-rel \">\n<div class=\"read-details marg-btm-lr\">\n<div class=\"entry-header-details\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"color-pad\">\n<div class=\"entry-content read-details color-tp-pad no-color-pad\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"reports-big-img details-reports-big-img\">\n<div class=\"report-content fr-view\">\n<div class=\"highlighted-content\">\n<p><strong>Sports Desk:<\/strong>\u00a0 Belgium were missing several regulars like Thibaut Courtois, Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard, but they were still hoping to send out a message of intent ahead of next week\u2019s kick off of the European Championship<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A spirited Greece fought back to hold top ranked Belgium to a 1-1 draw in their friendly international in Brussels on Thursday as Georgios Tzavellas\u2019 second half goal cancelled out an early strike for the hosts from Thorgan Hazard.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium were missing several regulars like Thibaut Courtois, Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard, but they were still hoping to send out a message of intent ahead of next week\u2019s kick off of the European Championship.<\/p>\n<p>But Greece, who did not qualify for the tournament, proved dogged opponents with little regard for their hosts\u2019 status at the top of the FIFA rankings in a feisty clash behind closed doors at the King Baudouin Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard put Belgium ahead after 20 minutes but Tzavellas levelled the score midway through the second half.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Desk:&nbsp; Belgium were missing several regulars like Thibaut Courtois, Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard, but they were still hoping to send out a message of intent ahead of next week&rsquo;s kick off of the European Championship A spirited Greece fought back to hold top ranked Belgium to a 1-1 draw in their friendly international in Brussels on Thursday as Georgios Tzavellas&rsquo; second half goal cancelled out an early strike for the hosts from Thorgan Hazard. Belgium were missing several regulars like Thibaut Courtois, Kevin De Bruyne and Eden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26823,"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\/26822"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26824,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822\/revisions\/26824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}