{"id":295223,"date":"2020-12-21T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T07:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=295223"},"modified":"2020-12-21T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T07:54:47","slug":"laliga-zidane-singles-out-one-real-madrid-player-after-eibar-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=295223","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: Zidane singles out one Real Madrid player after Eibar win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Real Madrid manager, Zinedine Zidane, has said Karim Benzema is playing \u201con a different level\u201d after helping Los Blancos to another win.<\/p>\n<p>Benzema scored one and laid on two assists, as Madrid made it five straight wins in all competitions by defeating Eibar 3-1 in LaLiga on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 30th time the French striker has scored and assisted in the same league game.<\/p>\n<p>Only Cristiano Ronaldo (44) has done it more often for Madrid in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenzema is a match winner because what he\u2019s doing is on a different level, not just because of the goals,\u201d Zidane told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always repeat myself saying the same thing about Karim. It\u2019s not only his goals, he\u2019s a focal point in our game. He\u2019s very important for us and when he scores, it\u2019s even better, obviously, but he\u2019s very important for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madrid are now joint top with city rivals Atletico, with 29 points, although Diego Simeone\u2019s men have played two fewer games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid manager, Zinedine Zidane, has said Karim Benzema is playing \u201con a different level\u201d after helping Los Blancos to another win. Benzema scored one and laid on two assists, as Madrid made it five straight wins in all competitions by defeating Eibar 3-1 in LaLiga on Sunday. It was the 30th time the French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295224,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4803,5278,5845],"class_list":["post-295223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-benzema","tag-real-madrid","tag-zidane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295223","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=295223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}