{"id":508333,"date":"2026-02-12T18:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508333"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:03:41","slug":"atletico-madrid-trash-barca-for-a-half-and-beat-them-4-0-in-copa-del-rey","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/atletico-madrid-trash-barca-for-a-half-and-beat-them-4-0-in-copa-del-rey\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid trash Barca for a half and beat them 4-0 in Copa del Rey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid took a huge step to reach the Copa del Rey\u2019s final after defeating Barcelona 4-0 at Metropolitano Stadium in the 1st leg of the \u00bd finals, and will travel to Catalonia for the 2nd leg with a 4-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the match came after only 6<sup>th<\/sup> minutes when Eric Garcia scored an own goal. Antoine Griezmann doubled Atletico Madrid\u2019s lead in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> minute when he received the ball inside the box, and he netted inside the left post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a1El primer asalto de la eliminatoria es nuestro! \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nWSt6DRPoW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nWSt6DRPoW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid (@Atleti) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Atleti\/status\/2022068738938609737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Things became even worse for the visiting team, because they were trailing 3-0 after 33 minutes as a phenomenal attack finished with an amazing assist of Alvarez to Ademola Lookman as the new forward of the home side made the advance of his team classic.<\/p>\n<p>There was time for more, as in the extra time of the 1st half, Julian Alvarez ended his goal drought with a phenomenal goal as Lookman provided the assist.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, Barcelona thought that they scored, but after a long VAR review, the goal was disallowed for an offside.<\/p>\n<p>In the 85<sup>th<\/sup> minute, the Catalan side was left with 10 men on the pitch after Eric Garcia received a red card for tipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid took a huge step to reach the Copa del Rey\u2019s final after defeating Barcelona 4-0 at Metropolitano Stadium in the 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508335,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18986,17224],"news_category":[137,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18987,17560],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The home side has a huge advantage before the 2nd leg in Catalonia.","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\/508333"}],"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=508333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508337,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508333\/revisions\/508337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508333"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508333"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}