{"id":42399,"date":"2025-10-01T20:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hojlund-grateful-to-de-bruyne-brace-with-assists-in-the-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:26:35","slug":"hojlund-grateful-to-de-bruyne-brace-with-assists-in-the-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/hojlund-grateful-to-de-bruyne-brace-with-assists-in-the-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00f8jlund grateful to De Bruyne: Brace with assists in the Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"Rasmus H\u00f8jlund expressed his gratitude for playing alongside Kevin De Bruyne, after scoring two goals thanks to assists from the Belgian midfielder in Napoli&#8217;s 2-1 victory over Sporting CP in the Champions League.\n\nDe Bruyne, with a precise pass, assisted H\u00f8jlund in Napoli&#8217;s first goal. Subsequently, the Belgian also provided the cross for the header that gave the Italian team the lead in the second half.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Kevin is a legend in the sport. For me, every time he has the ball, it&#8217;s about finding space. I am very grateful to play with such a player.<\/p><cite>Rasmus H\u00f8jlund<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\">Conte downplays De Bruyne substitution incident<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nThe second Napoli goal reminded many of the goals that De Bruyne assisted Erling Haaland during his successful time at Manchester City.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>They are quite similar. Erling is Erling and what he has done in his career is incredible. They both like to attack space. Rasmus sometimes wants to come and receive the ball.<\/p><cite>Kevin De Bruyne<\/cite>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1001%2Fr1554151_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Rasmus H\u00f8jlund y Kevin De Bruyne celebrando un gol\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Rasmus H\u00f8jlund y Kevin De Bruyne celebrando un gol en la victoria del Napoli contra Sporting CP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nH\u00f8jlund, who struggled to score in his two seasons at Manchester United, has scored three goals in five appearances since his loan to Napoli. This consolidates his impressive performance in the Champions League, where he already has seven goals in eight matches.\n\nDe Bruyne, for his part, has accumulated 27 assists in the Champions League, surpassing Zinedine Zidane and Andr\u00e9s Iniesta, and ranking fifth historically for midfielders, only behind Ryan Giggs (41), \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda (38), David Beckham (36) and Xavi (31).\n\nSince his arrival at Napoli in June, De Bruyne has been involved in five goals in seven matches. Wednesday&#8217;s performance was the perfect response to the controversy over his reaction to a substitution at the weekend.\n\nDe Bruyne was substituted by Billy Gilmour two minutes from the end of the match, amid an ovation in his first European encounter at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmus H\u00f8jlund expressed his gratitude for playing alongside Kevin De Bruyne, after scoring two goals thanks to assists from the Belgian midfielder in Napoli&#8217;s 2-1 victory over Sporting CP in the Champions League. De Bruyne, with a precise pass, assisted H\u00f8jlund in Napoli&#8217;s first goal. Subsequently, the Belgian also provided the cross for the header [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,1199,2845,3971],"class_list":{"0":"post-42399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-kevin-de-bruyne","10":"tag-naples","11":"tag-rasmus-hojlund"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}