{"id":472655,"date":"2023-12-12T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T21:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472655"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T21:13:39","slug":"benzema-makes-history-as-al-ittihad-cruise-past-auckland-city-3-0","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/benzema-makes-history-as-al-ittihad-cruise-past-auckland-city-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzema makes history as Al-Ittihad cruise past Auckland City 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema has put his name in the history books by becoming the first player to score in 4 different editions of the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 HISTORY: Karim Benzema becomes the 1st player in Club World Cup history to score in 4 different editions of the tournament. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/2010MisterChip?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@2010MisterChip<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wYB0Okq9mJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wYB0Okq9mJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadridXtra\/status\/1734650873924497842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman netted Al-Ittihad&#8217;s third goal in their convincing 3-0 defeat over Auckland City to qualify for the second round, where they will face Al-Ahly.<\/p>\n<p>Romarinho opened the scoring in the 29th minute with a deflected effort before former Chelsea midfielder N\u2019Golo Kante doubled the lead five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the historic moment with Benzema, who has enjoyed success at this tournament with Real Madrid. Auckland were unable to find any sort of answer as the Saudi team sets up a Friday clash against the African champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema has put his name in the history books by becoming the first player to score in 4 different editions of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":472657,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19706,17428],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[19707,22338,771],"acf":{"announce":"The Frenchman becomes the first player to score in 4 different editions of the Club World Cup","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\/472655"}],"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=472655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472658,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472655\/revisions\/472658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472655"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472655"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}