{"id":473126,"date":"2023-12-16T18:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T22:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473126"},"modified":"2023-12-16T18:08:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T22:08:57","slug":"valencia-1-1-draw-keeps-barcelona-far-from-the-top","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/valencia-1-1-draw-keeps-barcelona-far-from-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia 1-1 draw keeps Barcelona far from the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona couldn&#8217;t find a way to win for a third game in a row, finishing 1-1 against Valencia in La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend the reigning champions were demolished by the surprising league leader Girona before falling short against Antwerp in the Champions League in their mid-week clash in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The dropped two points at Mestalla leave Barca six points away from the top, but Girona and Real Madrid may increase their lead with their games in hand this weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">\u2702\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nB5JcFGcHk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nB5JcFGcHk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1736129418626465911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>After a balanced first half, Barcelona scored first ten minutes after the break. De Jong sent a good pass to Rafinha, who passed to Joao Felix and the Portuguese couldn&#8217;t miss an empty net.<\/p>\n<p>In the 70th minute, Valencia managed to equalize the score. After a well-developed attack on the right side, a high cross was sent into the box, where Barcelona&#8217;s defense failed to intervene well, the ball found its way to Hugo Guillaume and he beat Pe\u00f1a with a phenomenal strike from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n<p>In the 82nd minute, Barca missed a golden opportunity for a second goal. Ferran Torres passed to Rafinha, who broke away, but was selfish not to find a teammate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona couldn&#8217;t find a way to win for a third game in a row, finishing 1-1 against Valencia in La Liga. Last weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":473127,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,17968],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17560,17970],"acf":{"announce":"The Catalans are now six points behind Girona, who have a game in hand","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\/473126"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473129,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473126\/revisions\/473129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473126"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473126"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}