{"id":238116,"date":"2025-09-19T04:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238116\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:57:08","slug":"watch-barcelona-loanee-ansu-fati-scores-on-debut-for-as-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238116\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Barcelona loanee Ansu Fati scores on debut for AS Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two years after scoring his last goal, FC Barcelona loanee Ansu Fati has found the back of the net on his debut for AS Monaco tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The La Masia graduate, who had fallen out of favour at Bar\u00e7a, joined the Ligue 1 club on loan in the summer, but has had to bide his time to make his debut.<\/p>\n<p>Fati had not even been named in the matchday squad for Monaco\u2019s first four Ligue 1 matches, but was included for today\u2019s UEFA Champions League clash against Club Brugge.<\/p>\n<p>Coming on in the 63rd minute for Folarin Balogun, Ansu could not save his team from a defeat as Monaco were hammered 4-1 by the Belgian outfit. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5xHcQBkezj\">pic.twitter.com\/5xHcQBkezj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 topyshark (@topyshark) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/topyshark\/status\/1968746296409309653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the Barcelona loanee did manage to score the only goal for his team, rifling in a powerful left-footed effort from inside the box in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>This marks his first goal in a professional football match since November 2023, when he had scored for his previous loan club, Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, against AFC Ajax.<\/p>\n<p>The past few years have been extremely difficult for Ansu, owing to recurring injury and fitness problems.<\/p>\n<p>Now, having scored on his official debut for Monaco, the youngster will hope to kick on and enjoy a productive campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly two years after scoring his last goal, FC Barcelona loanee Ansu Fati has found the back of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":238117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[127597,126981,1386,4444,5727,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-238116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ansu-fati","9":"tag-as-monaco","10":"tag-barcelona","11":"tag-barcelona-news","12":"tag-fc-barcelona","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}