{"id":481941,"date":"2026-02-18T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481941\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:36:08","slug":"jhon-durans-mma-style-grapple-on-zenit-debut-draws-only-a-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481941\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhon Duran\u2019s MMA-style grapple on Zenit debut draws only a yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jhon Duran produced an MMA-style grapple on his <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/zenit-368\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zenit<\/a> debut on Tuesday, escaping with only a yellow during a friendly against <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/krasnodar-1153\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Krasnodar<\/a> in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>He had joined <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/zenit-368\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zenit<\/a> Saint Petersburg only days earlier and made headlines inside five minutes. According to L&#8217;\u00c9quipe, the 22-year-old was sent clear for his first chance, was barged by his marker, then wrapped an arm around the defender\u2019s neck to haul him down.<\/p>\n<p>The referee showed a yellow card, though the images suggested the act might have warranted a harsher sanction.<\/p>\n<p>Duran\u2019s name had been linked with Lille earlier this winter. He rose to prominence in 2024 with <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/aston-villa-199\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a>, scoring regularly and impressing.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago he joined Al Nassr for a record fee of \u20ac75 million, then was loaned at the start of this season to Fenerbah\u00e7e to free a foreign-player slot at Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s club. He struggled in T\u00fcrkiye, scoring five in 21 across all competitions, and moved again on loan this winter to <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/zenit-368\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zenit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jhon Duran produced an MMA-style grapple on his Zenit debut on Tuesday, escaping with only a yellow during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-481941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481941","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=481941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}