{"id":111696,"date":"2019-04-28T16:48:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=111696"},"modified":"2019-04-28T17:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T16:31:22","slug":"french-cup-final-what-neymar-said-after-rennes-defeated-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=111696","title":{"rendered":"French Cup final: What Neymar said after Rennes defeated PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/French-Cup-final-What-Neymar-said-after-Rennes-defeated-PSG.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar has expressed sadness over his side\u2019s defeat to Rennes in the French Cup final on Saturday at Stade de France.<\/p>\n<p>Rennes defeated PSG 6-5 on penalties following a 2-2 draw at the end of extra time to win their first trophy in almost half century.<\/p>\n<p>PSG substitute, Christopher Nkunku blazed his spot-kick over the bar in the shootout, sparking scenes of joy among the Rennes fans at the Stade de France.<\/p>\n<p>Dani Alves and Neymar scored two goals for Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side, while Presnel Kimpembe scored an own goal and Edson Mexer headed in a 66th minute strike for Rennes to take the game to extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Neymar was quoted by The National as saying: \u201cI am sad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t quite up to it, but there is no point crying about it now. There is nothing we can do.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar has expressed sadness over his side\u2019s defeat to Rennes in the French Cup final on Saturday at Stade de France. Rennes defeated PSG 6-5 on penalties following a 2-2 draw at the end of extra time to win their first trophy in almost half century. PSG substitute, Christopher Nkunku blazed his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4460,4430],"class_list":["post-111696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-neymar","tag-psg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}