{"id":433807,"date":"2023-04-22T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433807"},"modified":"2023-04-22T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T21:16:12","slug":"real-madrid-beat-celta-2-0-to-close-gap-on-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/real-madrid-beat-celta-2-0-to-close-gap-on-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid beat Celta 2-0 to close gap on Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid defeated Celta Vigo 2-0 to close the gap at the top of La Liga to 8 points on Saturday night, before Barcelona play their next game against Atletico Madrid on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc1 FP: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@realmadrid<\/a> 2-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCCelta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RCCelta<\/a> <br \/>\u26bd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoasensio10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@marcoasensio10<\/a> 42&#39;, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edermilitao?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@edermilitao<\/a> 47&#39;. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RealMadridCelta?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RealMadridCelta<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Emirates?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Emirates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6bdDltOYrp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6bdDltOYrp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadrid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid\/status\/1649880183141285888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nMarco Asensio put the host in front minutes before half-time with a little bit of fortune as a deflected shot found the young Spaniard after a brilliant work from Vinicius Jr. in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>Eder Militao doubled Los Blancos lead a couple of minutes into the second half with a fine header from a corner.<\/p>\n<p>Real will be hoping for a favour from their neighbours Atletico to take points from the rivals Barcelona as this is their only shot at what looks at this moment an impossible title.<\/p>\n<p>They face Girona in the next round and will be aiming for a victory, which will increase the pressure on the Catalans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid defeated Celta Vigo 2-0 to close the gap at the top of La Liga to 8 points on Saturday night, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":433808,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,18979,17375,17449],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Los Blancos didn't break a sweat as they keep their slim La Liga chances alive","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\/433807"}],"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=433807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433807"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433807"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}