{"id":415757,"date":"2023-02-16T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415757"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:00:17","slug":"barca-and-man-utd-level-in-captivating-europa-league-clash","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/barca-and-man-utd-level-in-captivating-europa-league-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Barca and Man Utd level in captivating Europa League clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish league leaders Barcelona fought back to claim a 2-2 draw in their thrilling Europa League knockout round play-off first leg against English giants Manchester United in front of 90,000 fans at the Nou Camp and millions more worldwide.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL TIME <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bar%C3%A7aMUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bar\u00e7aMUFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tDAtsRMDGg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tDAtsRMDGg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1626305666137702401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Having previously met in two Champions League finals &#8211; both of which Barca won &#8211; the sides are on the path to recovery in trying to reach those heady heights again.<\/p>\n<p>This time in Europe&#8217;s secondary competition.<\/p>\n<p>Marcos Alonso headed Barcelona in front before Marcus Rashford levelled for United with his 22nd goal in all competitions this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3xWoayR437\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3xWoayR437<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester United (@ManUtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManUtd\/status\/1626298273299419145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A Jules Kounde own goal put the Red Devils in front and the visitors looked set to claim another famous win at the Nou Camp &#8211; the scene of their 1999 Champions League success.<\/p>\n<p>However, Raphinha dashed those hopes when his cross found its way inside David de Gea&#8217;s far post to get the home side back on level terms.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalans, though, almost snatched a late win when Casemiro&#8217;s attempted clearance struck his own post, but little separated the sides heading into next Thursday&#8217;s second leg at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish league leaders Barcelona fought back to claim a 2-2 draw in their thrilling Europa League knockout round play-off first leg against English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415758,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,16789,17231],"news_category":[14235,136,143,14236,137],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Raphinha dashed hopes of another famous United's win at the Nou Camp","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415757"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415757"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}