{"id":120003,"date":"2022-09-14T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ten-man-rangers-handed-another-heavy-champions-league-defeat-by-napoli"},"modified":"2022-09-14T21:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:49:02","slug":"ten-man-rangers-handed-another-heavy-champions-league-defeat-by-napoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ten-man-rangers-handed-another-heavy-champions-league-defeat-by-napoli","title":{"rendered":"Ten-man Rangers handed another heavy Champions League defeat by Napoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-man Rangers were left searching for their first Champions League point after a 3-0 defeat by Napoli at Ibrox, where penalties were the turning point of the game. Returning goalkeeper Allan McGregor sensationally saved a retaken Piotr Zielinksi spot-kick on the hour after Gers defender James Sands was sent off conceding it, before he was beaten from 12 yards in the 67th minute by Matteo Politano. Giacomo Raspadori added a second with five minutes remaining and fellow substitute Tanguy Ndombele grabbed a third in added time to compound Gers&#8217; misery The Light Blues lost 4-0 to Ajax last week after going down by the same score against Celtic at Parkhead in their previous match. However, they showed the desired spirit and determination against the classy Serie A leaders before coming up short when they went down to 10 men. Boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst had vowed to stick to his footballing philosophy after two heavy defeats, but he rang the changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-man Rangers were left searching for their first Champions League point after a 3-0 defeat by Napoli at Ibrox, where penalties were the turning point of the game.Returning goalkeeper Allan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,141],"tags":[144,142,138,143],"class_list":["post-120003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uefa","tag-afc-ajax","tag-champions-league","tag-soccer","tag-uefa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}