{"id":30981,"date":"2023-04-27T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=30981"},"modified":"2023-04-27T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:50:17","slug":"la-liga-leaders-barcelona-lose-at-rayo-vallecano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2023\/04\/27\/la-liga-leaders-barcelona-lose-at-rayo-vallecano\/","title":{"rendered":"La Liga leaders Barcelona lose at Rayo Vallecano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News desk: Leaders Barcelona suffered only their third La Liga defeat of the season as Rayo Vallecano secured a memorable win.<\/p>\n<p>Goals by Alvaro Garcia and Fran Garcia put the mid-table hosts in a commanding position before Robert Lewandowski scored a late consolation.<\/p>\n<p>Barca remain on course to win a first La Liga title since 2018-19, 11 points clear of nearest rivals Real Madrid with eight matches left.<\/p>\n<p>They host fifth-placed Real Betis on Saturday (kick-off 20:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p>Garcia put Vallecano ahead after firing across Marc-Andre ter Stegen before Garcia doubled the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski pulled one back after Franck Kessie&#8217;s shot was blocked, his 18th La Liga goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It was Barcelona&#8217;s first defeat in La Liga since 26 February, while they have won just one of their past four league games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News desk: Leaders Barcelona suffered only their third La Liga defeat of the season as Rayo Vallecano secured a memorable win. Goals by Alvaro Garcia and Fran Garcia put the mid-table hosts in a commanding position before Robert Lewandowski scored a late consolation. Barca remain on course to win a first La Liga title since 2018-19, 11 points clear of nearest rivals Real Madrid with eight matches left. They host fifth-placed Real Betis on Saturday (kick-off 20:00 BST). Garcia put Vallecano ahead after firing across Marc-Andre ter Stegen before Garcia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30982,"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\/30981"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30983,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions\/30983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}