{"id":467021,"date":"2023-10-25T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467021"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:06:15","slug":"barcelona-edge-out-shakhtar-donetsk-to-cement-1st-place-in-group-h","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/barcelona-edge-out-shakhtar-donetsk-to-cement-1st-place-in-group-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona edge out Shakhtar Donetsk to cement 1st place in Group H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona came out on top in their Champions League group stage clash against Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 to maintain perfect start on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ferran Torres proved to be the hero for the home side as he bagged a goal an assist.<\/p>\n<p>Torres opened the scoring in the 28th minute as he collected a rebound from Fermin Lopez effort, which hit the post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 FULL TIME!!!!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bar%C3%A7aShakhtar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bar\u00e7aShakhtar<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ChampionsLeague<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gE5tPHSBJJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gE5tPHSBJJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1717250129378324523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Only 8 minutes later the duo were at it again as this time Torres set up Lopez for a 2-0 lead and a comfortable advantage for Barca.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors reduced the deficit in the second half through Heorhii Sudakov and looked like they might stage a comeback, but the 5-time winners eventually were able to hold on.<\/p>\n<p>Victory means that Xavi&#8217;s men now have 9 points out of possible 9 in Group H and are sitting comfortably at the top. Huge task lies ahead of the Catalans as they face bitter rivals Real Madrid in crunch El Clasico on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona came out on top in their Champions League group stage clash against Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 to maintain perfect start on Wednesday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":467022,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,21030,21476],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17560,21905,21032,21477],"acf":{"announce":"The Catalans maintain 100% record in the Champions League","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\/467021"}],"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=467021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467024,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467021\/revisions\/467024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467021"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467021"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}