{"id":394669,"date":"2022-11-20T14:29:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394669"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T16:17:38","slug":"valencia-strikes-twice-as-ecuador-beat-qatar-in-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/valencia-strikes-twice-as-ecuador-beat-qatar-in-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia strikes twice as Ecuador beat Qatar in World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Turkish club Fenerbahce striker Enner Valencia\u00a0scored two first-half goals as Ecuador beat hosts Qatar 2-0 in the much-awaited opening match of the FIFA World Cup on Sunday.<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u23f1 Ecuador take the points in our first game at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Qatar2022<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@adidasfootball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1594390048157343745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Valencia converted a penalty before powering home a header to give Gustavo Alfaro&#8217;s side a perfect start in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>The Ecuador captain sent a header into the back of the net following Felix Torres&#8217; overhead kick in the third minute, but the goal was disallowed after the former West Ham and Everton forward was ruled offside by the video assistant referee.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having 47 percent of possession in the game at the Al Bayt Stadium, Qatar didn&#8217;t manage a single shot on target while Ecuador had three.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never too early to celebrate being top of the group \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udde8\ud83d\udd1d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Qatar2022<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1594407127287726084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The result marked the first time that a host team has lost the opening game of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A souvenir from a \ud835\ude03\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddff\ud835\ude06 memorable match \ud83d\udc55<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaTri?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LaTri<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UQS6lTYEDt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UQS6lTYEDt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1594419967729901569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish club Fenerbahce striker Enner Valencia\u00a0scored two first-half goals as Ecuador beat hosts Qatar 2-0 in the much-awaited opening match of the FIFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394670,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16861,16862],"news_category":[16671,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Qatar didn't manage a single shot on target","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394669"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394669"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}