{"id":244615,"date":"2025-09-21T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244615\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:50:12","slug":"loan-watch-barcelonas-ansu-fati-comes-off-bench-and-bags-brace-for-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244615\/","title":{"rendered":"Loan Watch: Barcelona\u2019s Ansu Fati comes off bench and bags brace for Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona loanee Ansu Fati came off the bench and bagged a brace for Monaco on Sunday in Ligue 1 in a 4-2 win over Metz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The forward has now followed that up with two more goals for his new side. Fati\u2019s first came just 36 seconds after he had been sent on by Adi Hutter and put Monaco 2-1 up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Barcelona youngster latched onto a low ball into the penalty area and provided a neat touch to slot home from close range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Metz equalised from the penalty spot but went behind again in the 83rd minute when Fati scored again to put his side 3-2 up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kr\u00e9pin Diatta sent in a cross from the right and found Fati in the penalty box and able to steer a header home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">An own goal and a stoppage-time effort from George Ilenikhena saw Monaco extend their lead and seal a 5-2 victory that maintains their unbeaten start to the Ligue 1 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fati\u2019s two goals mean he now has three in his first two outings for his new club, and he certainly seems to be settling in well after a slow start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona loanee Ansu Fati came off the bench and bagged a brace for Monaco on Sunday in Ligue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2618,87093,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-244615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona-team-news","9":"tag-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244615","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=244615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}