{"id":129004,"date":"2019-06-22T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129004"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:03:07","slug":"copa-america-2019-alexis-sanchezs-goal-against-ecuador-sends-chile-into-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129004","title":{"rendered":"Copa America 2019: Alexis Sanchez\u2019s goal against Ecuador sends Chile into quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chile striker, Alexis Sanchez, continued his resurgent form at the 2019 Copa America in Brazil by scoring the winning goal in his side\u2019s 2-1 win over Ecuador on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Manchester United star, who had ended a barren five-month spell by scoring in Monday\u2019s 4-0 win against Japan, put Chile ahead early in the second half.<\/p>\n

Sanchez did so by expertly guiding a bouncing cross into the net with one touch.<\/p>\n

Chile took the lead in the eighth minute when Jose Fuenzalida volleyed into the net.<\/p>\n

But Ecuador were awarded a penalty kick when goalkeeper Gabriel Arias clattered Jhegson Mendez, allowing Enner Valencia to level from the spot in the 26th minute.<\/p>\n

The win fired Chile into the quarter-finals of the competition.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chile striker, Alexis Sanchez, continued his resurgent form at the 2019 Copa America in Brazil by scoring the winning goal in his side\u2019s 2-1 win over Ecuador on Friday night. The Manchester United star, who had ended a barren five-month spell by scoring in Monday\u2019s 4-0 win against Japan, put Chile ahead early in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129005,"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":[7784,12473],"class_list":["post-129004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alexis-sanchez","tag-copa-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129004","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=129004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}