{"id":427633,"date":"2023-02-26T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427633"},"modified":"2023-02-26T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T20:11:28","slug":"toothless-barcelona-suffer-second-la-liga-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/toothless-barcelona-suffer-second-la-liga-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Toothless Barcelona suffer second La Liga loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish La Liga leaders Barcelona couldn&#8217;t find a way past a resolute defense and slumped to a 1-0 defeat to struggling Almeria on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL TIME! \ud83d\udd1a<\/p>\n<p>Almer\u00eda has secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FCBarcelona<\/a>! \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>El Bilal Tour\u00e9 \u26bd\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Almer%C3%ADaBar%C3%A7a?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Almer\u00edaBar\u00e7a<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaLiga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LaLiga<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VamosAlmeria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VamosAlmeria<\/a> \ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bgqpyYQ5Pj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bgqpyYQ5Pj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UD Almer\u00eda (@UDAlmeria_Eng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UDAlmeria_Eng\/status\/1629924661130608642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Breakout star El Bilal Toure continued an excellent debut season in Spain with a brilliant goal 24 minutes into the first-half, which lifted Almeria out of the bottom three.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Mali international, who joined Almeria from French club Reims last September, chested down a long ball, laid it off and immediately raced in behind to receive the return ball.<\/p>\n<p>Taking back possession, he drove into the Barcelona box before unleashing a thunderous strike that goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen had no hope of saving.<\/p>\n<p>The loss &#8211; Barsa&#8217;s second of the season, means that Xavi Hernandez&#8217;s side failed to extend their seven-point lead at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Barcelona were knocked out of Europa League at the hands of Manchester United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish La Liga leaders Barcelona couldn&#8217;t find a way past a resolute defense and slumped to a 1-0 defeat to struggling Almeria on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427637,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17786,17224,17344],"news_category":[137],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"El Bilal Toure continued an excellent debut season in Spain, scoring the winning goal","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\/427633"}],"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=427633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427633"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427633"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}