{"id":16603,"date":"2012-10-27T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T02:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=16603"},"modified":"2012-10-27T22:37:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T02:37:31","slug":"parkhurst-in-cl-team-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=16603","title":{"rendered":"Parkhurst In CL Team of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former New England Revolution defender and current starting right back at Danish club F.C. Nordsj\u00e6lland, Michael Parkhurst, was named to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.uclratings.uefa.com\/Player\/TeamOfWeek\/\" target=\"_blank\">UEFA Champions League Team of the Week<\/a><\/span> for his performance in Nordsj\u00e6lland\u2019s 1-1 home draw with Juventus on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nordsj\u00e6lland, the defending champions of the Danish Superliga, were the underdogs against a heavily favored Juventus, the defending champions of Italian Serie A, but took a 51st minute lead through Mikkel Beckmann and held on for a 1-1 draw after Mirko Vucinic\u2019s 81st minute equalizer. The draw was Nordsj\u00e6lland\u2019s first point of the Champions League and left the club in last place of Group E with 1 point.<\/p>\n<p>Juventus maintained 57% of the possession and outshot Nordsj\u00e6lland 33 to 10, but the defense did enough to hold on for the tie. Parkhurst, a Rhode Island native, came up big in the match blocking two shots after Nordsj\u00e6lland took their surprise lead early in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Nordsj\u00e6lland previously lost 4-0 to defending Champions League winners Chelsea and 2-0 to defending Ukrainian champions FC Shakhtar Donetsk. Nordsj\u00e6lland sits three points behind Chelsea for the second spot in the group &#8212; needed to advance to the next round &#8212; with three games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Nordsj\u00e6lland returns to Champions League action on November 7th for a rematch &#8212; this time on the road &#8212; against Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>Nordsj\u00e6lland (7-4-3, 25 points) currently holds third place in the Danish Superliga, four points behind first place FC Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>Match Highlights:<br \/>\n<object width=\"460\" height=\"292\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.trilulilu.ro\/video\/tokis\/ac860844379060\/0xE9EFF4.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island native Michael Parkhurst was named to the UEFA Champions League Team of the Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/parkhurstfeature.jpg?fit=490%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16608,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions\/16608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}