{"id":344219,"date":"2017-08-11T20:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=344219"},"modified":"2017-08-11T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:57:41","slug":"arsenal-beat-leicester-in-breathtaking-premier-league-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=344219","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal beat Leicester in breathtaking Premier League opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Substitute Olivier Giroud headed in a dramatic late winner as Arsenal fought back to beat Leicester City in a thrilling start to the 2017-18 Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandre Lacazette headed the Gunners ahead 94 seconds into his top-flight debut, Shinji Okazaki nodding in the equaliser just two minutes later.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73226\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lacazette-cele.jpg\" alt=\"lacazette-cele\" width=\"574\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vardy slid the visitors ahead from Marc Albrighton&#8217;s cross, only for Danny Welbeck to stroke level on half-time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73229\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Vardy-cele.jpg\" alt=\"vardy-cele\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leicester took the lead again when Vardy headed in Riyad Mahrez&#8217;s corner before Arsene Wenger made an inspired double substitution which sparked Arsenal&#8217;s comeback.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73230\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Welbeck-goal.jpg\" alt=\"welbeck-goal\" width=\"574\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gunners boss introduced Aaron Ramsey and Giroud after 67 minutes &#8211; within 20 minutes both players had scored as Arsenal turned defeat into victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ramsey smashed in an angled drive &#8211; from a corner which was won after Mesut Ozil handled in the build-up &#8211; before Giroud showed athleticism and strength to meet Granit Xhaka&#8217;s corner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73225\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Giroud-goal.jpg\" alt=\"giroud-goal\" width=\"574\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substitute Olivier Giroud headed in a dramatic late winner as Arsenal fought back to beat Leicester City in a thrilling start to the 2017-18 Premier League season. Alexandre Lacazette headed the Gunners ahead 94 seconds into his top-flight debut, Shinji Okazaki nodding in the equaliser just two minutes later. Vardy slid the visitors ahead from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[145,2499,937],"class_list":["post-344219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-leicester","tag-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}