{"id":122904,"date":"2019-06-02T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122904"},"modified":"2019-06-02T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:21:27","slug":"champions-league-messi-finishes-as-2018-2019-top-scorer-see-top-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122904","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Messi finishes as 2018\/2019 top scorer [See top 14]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1557752521_Messi-finally-identifies-who-to-blame-for-Barcelonas-Champions-League-failure.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, has finished this season as the top scorer in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Messi, whose team was eliminated in the semi-final against Liverpool, netted a total of 12 goals in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>In second place is Bayern Munich striker, Robert Lewandowski, who scored eight times.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus), Moussa Marega (FC Porto) and Dusan Tadic (Ajax) all had six goals to their names.<\/p>\n<p>12 goals: Messi (Barcelona)<\/p>\n<p>8 goals: Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)<\/p>\n<p>6 goals: Aguero (Manchester City), Ronaldo (Juventus), Marega (FC Porto), Tadic (Ajax)<\/p>\n<p>5 goals: Dybala (Juventus), Dzeko (Roma), Kane (Tottenham), Kramaric (Hoffenheim), Lucas (Tottenham), Neymar (PSG), Salah (Liverpool), Sterling (Manchester City)\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, has finished this season as the top scorer in the Champions League. Messi, whose team was eliminated in the semi-final against Liverpool, netted a total of 12 goals in the competition. In second place is Bayern Munich striker, Robert Lewandowski, who scored eight times. Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116759,"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":[10667],"class_list":["post-122904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lionel-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122904","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=122904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}