{"id":43617,"date":"2014-09-01T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=43617"},"modified":"2014-09-01T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:39:39","slug":"ibrahimovic-scores-three-as-psg-thrash-st-etienne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=43617","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahimovic scores three as PSG thrash St Etienne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick on his return from injury as French champions Paris St-Germain thrashed Ligue 1 rivals St Etienne.<\/p>\n<p>A farcical own goal by away keeper Stephane Ruffier, who failed to control a routine backpass and allowed the ball to roll in, set PSG on their way.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahimovic doubled the lead just before half-time with a firm header.<\/p>\n<p>He intercepted a backpass for the third, then completed his treble after Edinson Cavani curled in a fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Laurent Blanc&#8217;s men have taken eight points from their opening four matches, two adrift of early leaders Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Stephane Ruffier\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/77293000\/jpg\/_77293209_023702476-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"260\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><strong>PSG skipper Zlatan Ibrahimovic comforts St Etienne keeper Stephane Ruffier after his mistake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick on his return from injury as French champions Paris St-Germain thrashed Ligue 1 rivals St Etienne. A farcical own goal by away keeper Stephane Ruffier, who failed to control a routine backpass and allowed the ball to roll in, set PSG on their way. Ibrahimovic doubled the lead just before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":43618,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[2083,29,3,2084,1848],"class_list":["post-43617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chieftaincy","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-police-whips-female-suspect","tag-world-bank-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43617","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}