{"id":432715,"date":"2023-04-05T21:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T01:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432715"},"modified":"2023-04-05T19:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:19:51","slug":"benzema-keeps-real-madrid-cup-double-alive","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/benzema-keeps-real-madrid-cup-double-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzema keeps Real Madrid cup double alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benzema notched 3 goals when the Royal club destroyed Barcelona 4-0 at Camp Nou and advanced to the Copa del Rey final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Karim Benzema is the first Real Madrid player to score a hat-trick at Camp Nou since Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Legend. ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fioumOQ0Ey\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fioumOQ0Ey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadridXtra\/status\/1643733143667499010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That will be the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Copa del Rey final for Real Madrid since 2014, and they will face Osasuna on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>Karim also scored a hat trick against Real Valladolid last week on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo Ancelotti lost his last 3 El Classicos in all tournaments, but that series ended with a humiliation of Barca at their stadium. However, with La Liga out of reach because of Xavi\u2019s team 12 points lead, Real still can lift 2 trophies at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The final in the domestic cup is secured, and they will face in their favorite tournament \u2013 Champions League Chelsea in the \u00bc finals. The 1<sup>st<\/sup> leg is in Madrid next week, and Karim Benzema can inspire Real to defend the Champions League trophy as they also eliminated Chelsea last season on their path to the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benzema notched 3 goals when the Royal club destroyed Barcelona 4-0 at Camp Nou and advanced to the Copa del Rey final. Karim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,17428,17969,17375],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17560,771,508,327],"acf":{"announce":"The French star and forward of Real had his 2nd hat trick within a week. ","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\/432715"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432715"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432715"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}