{"id":18213,"date":"2019-04-07T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T07:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=18213"},"modified":"2019-04-07T07:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T07:15:34","slug":"barca-a-little-closer-to-la-liga-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2019\/04\/07\/barca-a-little-closer-to-la-liga-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Barca a \u2018little closer\u2019 to La Liga title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi scored twice in two minutes as Barcelona broke the resistance of 10-man Atletico Madrid on Saturday to go 11 points clear of their La Liga title rivals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Diego Costa was sent off in the 28th minute at Camp Nou after insulting referee Gil Manzano but while Atletico held on for almost another hour, Suarez and Messi struck late to seal a pivotal 2-0 win, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The victory leaves Barca almost out of sight with seven games left to play and maintains momentum ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s trip to Manchester United in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is three crucial points,&#8221; coach Ernesto Valverde said. &#8220;We are a little closer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives us a big margin,&#8221; said Suarez. &#8220;We&#8217;ve taken not just one, but two steps forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi scored twice in two minutes as Barcelona broke the resistance of 10-man Atletico Madrid on Saturday to go 11 points clear of their La Liga title rivals. &nbsp; Diego Costa was sent off in the 28th minute at Camp Nou after insulting referee Gil Manzano but while Atletico held on for almost another hour, Suarez and Messi struck late to seal a pivotal 2-0 win, AFP reported. &nbsp; The victory leaves Barca almost out of sight with seven games left to play and maintains momentum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18215,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213\/revisions\/18215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}