{"id":661456,"date":"2026-10-21T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661456\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:58:10","slug":"club-brugge-2-0-lens-hosts-pick-up-second-champions-league-win-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661456\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Brugge 2-0 Lens: Hosts pick up second Champions League win of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Club Brugge picked up their second straight win in the Champions League with an impressive victory over Lens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Belgian champions were outplayed for large periods of the first half, with Lens having 11 shots on goal, compared to four for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winger Junior Kadile had an effort cleared off the line and saw a close-range header well saved by Yann Sommer, but it was Club Brugge who took the lead on the stroke of half-time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A corner was flicked on by Nicolo Tresoldi and the initial save was parried into the path of captain Hans Vanaken to tap home from within the six-yard box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Club Brugge, who won 4-3 at Inter Milan last week, doubled their lead early in the second half through left-back Joaquin Seys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Superb play down the right saw Carlos Forbs cross for Seys, whose initial effort was saved, but he reacted quickest to force into the roof of the net. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forbs sealed the victory on the counter-attack when he was played in down the right and lifted past the on-rushing goalkeeper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Club Brugge visit PSV in their next game on 3 November, while Lens host Como, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cwe8l3zeexvvt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thrashed Manchester United 4-1<\/a> earlier on Wednesday, on the same evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club Brugge picked up their second straight win in the Champions League with an impressive victory over Lens.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-661456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}