{"id":15508,"date":"2020-07-01T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15508"},"modified":"2020-07-01T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:04:02","slug":"barcelona-upset-with-draw-against-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15508","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona upset with draw against Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second-placed Barcelona drew 2-2 with third-placed Atletico Madrid in a match held Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Home team Barcelona led the first half after Diego Costa scored an own goal in the 12th minute.<\/p>\n<p>However, Atletico&#8217;s midfielder Saul Niguez equalized the game with a penalty goal in the 19th minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Argentine superstar Lionel Messi successfully converted the penalty, making it 2-1 as he reached the 700th goal in his professional career.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors were again awarded a penalty kick in the 62nd minute as the goal came from Saul Niguez.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid managed to get one point in a thrilling 2-2 game at Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>Messi, 33, has now scored 700 goals in all competitions as he netted 630 for Barcelona and 70 for his country, Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>With this result, Barcelona has 70 points in 33 matches to pursue leaders Real Madrid, who have 71 points in 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>With 59 points, Atletico Madrid is currently in third spot with 33 games in the La Liga table.<\/p>\n<p>Barca goalie Marc-Andre ter Stegen had deflected the first penalty shot, but the video assistant referee (VAR) caught him because he jumped off his line and the penalty was repeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0 Second-placed Barcelona drew 2-2 with third-placed Atletico Madrid in a match held Tuesday. Home team Barcelona led the first half after Diego Costa scored an own goal in the 12th minute. However, Atletico&#8217;s midfielder Saul Niguez equalized the game with a penalty goal in the 19th minute. In the second half, Argentine superstar Lionel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15510,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions\/15510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}