{"id":431329,"date":"2026-01-25T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431329\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:10:15","slug":"marseille-3-1-lens-arsenal-loanee-ethan-nwaneri-scores-on-marseille-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431329\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille 3-1 Lens: Arsenal loanee Ethan Nwaneri scores on Marseille debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ethan Nwaneri scored on his Marseille debut a day after joining from Arsenal on loan as Roberto de Zerbi&#8217;s side beat Lens in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old midfielder agreed to spend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1ev9p00z14o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rest of the season on loan<\/a> in southern France after failing to start a Premier League match this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nwaneri signed a new contract in the summer until 2030 after impressing last season, but has found minutes harder to come by since the summer signings of Noni Madueke for \u00a348.5m and Eberechi Eze for \u00a367m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He doubled Marseille&#8217;s lead in the 13th minute at a boisterous Stade Velodrome with a curled left-footed shot into the bottom corner from just inside the D.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Algeria striker Amine Gouiri put the home side ahead in the third minute from close range after bundling his way into the penalty area, before adding a third in the 75th minute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nineteen-year-old substitute Rayan Fofana pulled one back for Lens late on with a neat finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory means third-place Marseille move within five points of Lens in second, seven behind leaders Paris St-Germain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Nwaneri scored on his Marseille debut a day after joining from Arsenal on loan as Roberto de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-431329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}