{"id":11569,"date":"2021-10-17T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T10:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=11569"},"modified":"2021-10-17T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T10:21:40","slug":"saff-championship-india-rout-nepal-3-0-to-lift-8th-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/10\/17\/saff-championship-india-rout-nepal-3-0-to-lift-8th-title\/","title":{"rendered":"SAFF Championship: India Rout Nepal 3-0 to Lift 8th Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian football team won their eighth SAFF Championship title after beating Nepal 3-0 in the final IN Male yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Sunil Chhetri (49th minute), Suresh Singh (50th) and Sahal Abdul Samad (90th) were the goal scorers for India in this historic game.<\/p>\n<p>Chhetri&#8217;s goal in the final game helped him level with Lionel Messi on 80 international goals. Notably, this is the Indian football team&#8217;s first title victory under head coach Igor Stimac.<\/p>\n<p>India dominated possession in the first-half but they failed to score any goal. However, captain Chhetri put India ahead minutes into the second half and even before Nepal could settle down, Suresh made it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Sahal made it 3-0 when he tricked a few defenders after receiving the ball on the left flank at the stroke of the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>The final was the 12th for India in 13 editions, which also shows their domination in this regional tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian football team won their eighth SAFF Championship title after beating Nepal 3-0 in the final IN Male yesterday. Sunil Chhetri (49th minute), Suresh Singh (50th) and Sahal Abdul Samad (90th) were the goal scorers for India in this historic game. Chhetri&#8217;s goal in the final game helped him level with Lionel Messi on 80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11570,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569\/revisions\/11570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}