{"id":473706,"date":"2023-12-21T18:35:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473706"},"modified":"2023-12-21T18:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:36:23","slug":"stoppage-time-winner-from-vazques-send-10-men-real-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/stoppage-time-winner-from-vazques-send-10-men-real-to-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoppage time winner from Vazques sends 10-men Real to the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid defeated Deportivo Alaves in a dramatic fashion with a last-gasp winner from right-back Lucas Vazquez to overtake Girona at the top of La Liga on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Los Blancos were the better team all round, but were struggling to find a way through the staunch defense of Deportivo.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nervy contest for Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s men and things got even worse in the 54th minute, when they were reduced to 10-men after Nacho saw straight red for a clumsy tackle on Samuel Orodion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26aa\ufe0f\ud83c\udf84 Real Madrid go into Christmas break on top of La Liga thanks to Lucas V\u00e1zquez late goal\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and club will keep discussing options to sign new centre back in January. The decision has not been made yet. \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R36IHtEnQB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/R36IHtEnQB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1737962944883773561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nothing much changed, as Madrid was still the more active team. But time was ticking down and they were not able to create a clear goal-scoring opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>It came down to the 2nd minutes of stoppage time, when a fine delivery by Toni Kroos from a corner-kick found the head of Vazquez, who netted it home for the 3 points.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a mightily valuable win for Real Madrid as it sends them top of La Liga with 45 points, ahead of Girona also with 45, but a better head-to-head means the Bernabeu team is first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid defeated Deportivo Alaves in a dramatic fashion with a last-gasp winner from right-back Lucas Vazquez to overtake Girona at the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":473707,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22398,17375],"news_category":[137,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[22417,15679,327],"acf":{"announce":"Los Blancos dug deep and will sit atop of La Liga at Christmas","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\/473706"}],"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=473706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473710,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473706\/revisions\/473710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473706"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473706"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}