{"id":509251,"date":"2026-02-28T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509251"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:27:56","slug":"barcelona-beat-villarreal-4-1-as-yamal-scores-hattrick","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/barcelona-beat-villarreal-4-1-as-yamal-scores-hattrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona beat Villarreal 4-1 as Yamal scores hattrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona secured a comfortable 4-1 victory against Villarreal at Camp Nou as the team\u2019s young superstar Lamine Yamal finished the match with hattrick as that was his first in his career.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, Lamine Yamal scored twice within 9 minutes as both goals were assisted by Fermin, and the Catalan giants secured a 2-goal lead after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes of the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 POINTS AT HOME!!!! \u2705 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4WrSMehxSZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4WrSMehxSZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/2027794530196443425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, at the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, Pape Gueye scored to make Villarreal\u2019s trail only a single goal.<\/p>\n<p>Lamine Yamal secured his hat-trick in the 69<sup>th<\/sup> minute and made Barcelona\u2019s lead 2 goals again as Pedri assisted him.<\/p>\n<p>In the extra time of the clash, Robert Lewandowski, who replaced Ferran Torres in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, scored the final goal in the clash for the score 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan club secured a 4-point lead at the top of LaLiga after today\u2019s victory, as Real Madrid have a game in hand, as Los Blancos will face Getafe on Monday, and with a victory, can go back only 1 point behind Barca, with both clubs playing the same number of matches in the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lamine Yamal\u2019s first career hat-trick wins the game for Barcelona! \ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s been your Man of the Match? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mbU1VVFLzw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mbU1VVFLzw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2027794840163938705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona secured a comfortable 4-1 victory against Villarreal at Camp Nou as the team\u2019s young superstar Lamine Yamal finished the match with hattrick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,18683],"news_category":[137,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17560,18685],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Lamine scored 3 goals as the Catalan side won comfortably.","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\/509251"}],"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=509251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509253,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509251\/revisions\/509253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509251"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509251"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}