{"id":876826,"date":"2026-04-07T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/876826\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:05:16","slug":"usas-folarin-balogun-scores-in-monacos-win-over-rival-marseille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/876826\/","title":{"rendered":"USA’s Folarin Balogun Scores In Monaco’s Win Over Rival Marseille"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monaco<\/a> picked up Sunday where it had left off before the international break, beating southern rival Marseille<\/a> 2-1 in the French league as U.S. men’s national team striker Folarin Balogun<\/a> scored a superb goal to strengthen host Monaco’s push for a Champions League<\/a> spot.<\/p>\n

The Principality side won a seventh straight Ligue 1<\/a> game and increased its unbeaten run to 10 league matches.<\/p>\n

The win lifted Monaco level on points with fourth-placed Marseille and just one point behind third-placed Lille<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Balogun, who has scored eight goals in his last eight games for Monaco in all competitions, made it 2-0 in the 74th minute when he finished a move sparked by goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky’s<\/a> clearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The American-born Balogun, making his return from international duty after starting against Belgium and coming on as a substitute against Portugal, then dribbled into the box and chipped a subtle lob into the far corner.<\/p>\n

Aleksandr Golovin<\/a> had put Monaco in front near the hour mark. Amine Gouiri<\/a> pulled one back for Marseille in the 85th minute.<\/p>\n

The visitors, who played without the suspended Mason Greenwood<\/a>, pushed hard for an equalizer in the closing stages but Hradecky denied an attempt from Facundo Medina<\/a> with a fine reflex save and Jordan Teze<\/a> cleared an effort from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/a> off the line.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monaco picked up Sunday where it had left off before the international break, beating southern rival Marseille 2-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[248510,37032,234418,248511,157951,124048,248512,50817,7068,10039,10040,20073,37029,248513,8467,49,978,659],"class_list":["post-876826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-aleksandr-golovin","tag-amine-gouiri","tag-event_recap","tag-facundo-medina","tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","tag-folarin-balogun","tag-jordan-teze","tag-lens","tag-ligue-1","tag-lyon","tag-marseille","tag-mason-greenwood","tag-monaco","tag-pierre-emerick-aubameyang","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116360506630673514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}