{"id":240946,"date":"2025-09-20T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240946\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:48:16","slug":"barcelonas-marcus-rashford-voted-champions-league-player-of-the-week-after-newcastle-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240946\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona\u2019s Marcus Rashford voted Champions League Player of the Week after Newcastle heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Marcus Rashford\u2019s heroics in Barcelona\u2019s win over Newcastle in their Champions League opener have earned the Englishman the UCL Player of the Week for Matchday 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The award, which is voted by fans, celebrates Rashford\u2019s two great goals at St. James\u2019 Park, including an absolute screamer that will be a real candidate for Goal of the Season in the Europe\u2019s top competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rashford beat Juventus\u2019 Dusan Vlahovic, Inter Milan\u2019s Marcus Thuram, and former Blaugrana and current Sporting Lisbon star Francisco Trinc\u00e3o, who each scored a brace of their own in the week, but Bar\u00e7a fans (and maybe some Manchester United ones too) voted in big numbers and made sure that Rashford took home the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford\u2019s heroics in Barcelona\u2019s win over Newcastle in their Champions League opener have earned the Englishman the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[31701,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-240946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona-uefa-champions-league","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115235527338553286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240946","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=240946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}