{"id":434813,"date":"2023-05-04T04:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434813"},"modified":"2023-05-04T04:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:13:07","slug":"benteke-awarded-with-goal-of-the-matchday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/benteke-awarded-with-goal-of-the-matchday\/","title":{"rendered":"Benteke awarded with Goal of the Matchday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Benteke was awarded with Goal of the Matchday trophy for his strike in D.C. United&#8217;s 3-0 win over Charlotte FC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OMG Christian Benteke bicycle kick. \ud83d\ude31\ud83d\udeb2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VamosUnited?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VamosUnited<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tune-in now on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLSSeasonPass?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MLSSeasonPass<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ENr26qkfAb\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/ENr26qkfAb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/llTynYwOUT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/llTynYwOUT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/1652482682205663232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIt is his first award of this kind ever since he joined the MLS last summer after leaving English Premier League side Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>His spectacular bicycle kick earned him 48.7% of the votes as he helped his side achieve a third successive victory.<\/p>\n<p>Cucho Hernandez strike for Columbus Crew in the 2-1 defeat to Inter Miami lined up a distant second with 27.2% of the votes, while Bryce Duke goal in CF Montreal 2-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City rounded off the top 3 with 14,4%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Benteke was awarded with Goal of the Matchday trophy for his strike in D.C. United&#8217;s 3-0 win over Charlotte FC. OMG Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":434814,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19137],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Belgium strike earned him the accolade","video":["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\/434813"}],"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=434813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434813"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434813"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}