{"id":508613,"date":"2026-02-16T18:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508613"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:13:54","slug":"girona-shocks-barcelona-2-1-in-the-catalan-derby-as-real-remain-on-top","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/girona-shocks-barcelona-2-1-in-the-catalan-derby-as-real-remain-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Girona shocks Barcelona 2-1 in the Catalan derby as Real remain on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Girona won the Catalan derby against Barcelona 2-1 at Estadio Municipal de Montilivi with a late goal, and the new leader in LaLiga is Real Madrid with a 2-point advantage at the top.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> half-finished without goals, but Barcelona had a golden chance to score as they received a penalty in the extra time. However, Lamine Yamal missed it as his shot struck the right post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83d\udd25 VICT\u00d2RIIIAAAAAA D\u2019ORGULL GIRON\u00cd! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cYq9VdhyEb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cYq9VdhyEb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Girona FC (@GironaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GironaFC\/status\/2023517558524309986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite that, Hansi Flick\u2019s side scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the clash in the 60<sup>th<\/sup> minute as Jules Kounde assisted Pau Cubarsi for the opening goal in the match.<\/p>\n<p>Girona only needed 2 minutes to answer and tied the result again as Vladyslav Vanat assisted Thomas Lemar in the box.<\/p>\n<p>When everyone thought that Barcelona would be the team to score and win the derby in the final minutes of the match, the opposite happened.<\/p>\n<p>Fran Beltran scored the winning goal in the 86<sup>th<\/sup> minute from inside the box and secured the triumph in the derby for the home side.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Roca received a red card in the 99<sup>th<\/sup> minute, but it was too late for Barcelona to try to score with 1 more player on the pitch, as seconds later the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girona won the Catalan derby against Barcelona 2-1 at Estadio Municipal de Montilivi with a late goal, and the new leader in LaLiga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508614,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,18726],"news_category":[137,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17560,21588],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"A late goal secured the 3 points for the home side in the derby.","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\/508613"}],"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=508613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508615,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508613\/revisions\/508615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508613"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508613"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}