{"id":72,"date":"2019-08-18T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T09:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/english\/?p=72"},"modified":"2019-08-18T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T09:37:38","slug":"zinedine-zidane-said-gareth-bale-is-going-to-stay-at-real-madrid-after-the-welsh-forward-set-up-karim-benzemas-opening-goal-in-a-3-1-victory-at-celta-vigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/zinedine-zidane-said-gareth-bale-is-going-to-stay-at-real-madrid-after-the-welsh-forward-set-up-karim-benzemas-opening-goal-in-a-3-1-victory-at-celta-vigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinedine Zidane said Gareth Bale is &#8220;going to stay&#8221; at Real Madrid after the Welsh forward set up Karim Benzema&#8217;s opening goal in a 3-1 victory at Celta Vigo."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bale was a surprise starter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/49369849\">after being linked with a move away from the club<\/a>&nbsp;this summer, but was involved in Madrid&#8217;s best moments and Zidane insisted it was always his plan to play Bale in this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s going to stay and we all have to think of that as a positive thing,&#8221; manager Zidane said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The injury to Eden Hazard was bad luck for us but it didn&#8217;t change the plans we had for Bale in this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Gareth and everyone else here is going to show this shirt the respect it deserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bale had already tested Celta keeper Ruben Blanco with a rasping shot before delivering a pinpoint cross for Benzema to touch home after 12 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celta responded well and thought they had equalised on the stroke of half-time, but Brais Mendez&#8217; effort was disallowed for offside by the video assistant referee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toni Kroos doubled Real&#8217;s lead with a sensational 25-yard strike off the underside of the crossbar, shortly after Luka Modric was sent off for a late challenge on former Arsenal loanee Denis Suarez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite going down to 10 men at Estadio Municipal de Balaidos, Real scored a third when Lucas Vazquez finished off a flowing move late on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celta&#8217;s second-half substitute Iker Losada netted a consolation for the home side, beating Thibaut Courtois with a fierce shot in stoppage time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La Liga champions Barcelona lost their opening league game of the season on Friday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/49371762\">going down 1-0 to Athletic Bilbao<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bale was a surprise starter&nbsp;after being linked with a move away from the club&nbsp;this summer, but was involved in Madrid&#8217;s best moments and Zidane insisted it was always his plan to play Bale in this game. &#8220;He&#8217;s going to stay and we all have to think of that as a positive thing,&#8221; manager Zidane said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}