{"id":136046,"date":"2011-10-19T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=136046"},"modified":"2011-10-19T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T06:27:03","slug":"champions-league-ajax-wins-without-araz-ozbiliz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/19\/champions-league-ajax-wins-without-araz-ozbiliz.html","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Ajax Wins Without Araz \u00d6zbiliz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third matchday of the Champions League kicked off on Oct. 18. Manchester United secured its first win in this season\u2019s Champions League, 2-0 at Otelul Galati, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-10-18\/manchester-utd-beats-otelul-galati-2-0-real-madrid-wins-again.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bloomberg Businessweek reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Wayne Rooney got both goals in Bucharest from the penalty spot as United, a three-time European champion, struggled against a Romanian team playing its debut season in European soccer\u2019s elite club competition.<\/p>\n<p>CSKA Moscow earned their first victory of the campaign with a 3-0 triumph over Turkey&#8217;s Trabzonspor, while Real Madrid continue to look like one of the teams to beat in this year&#8217;s tournament after Jose Mourinho&#8217;s side defeated Lyon 4-0 at El Santiago Bernabeu, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-10-18\/manchester-utd-beats-otelul-galati-2-0-real-madrid-wins-again.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ESPN Soccernet<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>In the same group as Real Madrid and Olympique Lyon, Ajax \u2014 without Araz \u00d6zbiliz, the <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/05\/he-doesnt-speak-armenian-but-hes-learning-araz-ozbiliz-joins-armenian-national-team.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">newest player on Armenia&#8217;s national team<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> \u2014\u00a0breathed new life into their Champions League campaign by easing past Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 in an entertaining Group D match, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.eurosport.yahoo.com\/18102011\/58\/champions-league-ajax-win-keep-hopes-alive.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports Yahoo! Ireland and UK Sport<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>. The win gave Ajax, who last won the European Cup in 1995 after lifting it three times in a row from 1971-73, four points from three games, level with Lyon ahead of the reverse fixture against Dinamo in the Amsterdam Arena on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, due to injury, Ozbiliz is currently not playing in his squad.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajax \u2014 without Araz \u00d6zbiliz, the newest player on Armenia&#8217;s national team \u2014 breathed new life into their Champions League campaign by&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19631,19630,23738,10940],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}