{"id":15644,"date":"2020-07-10T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15644"},"modified":"2020-07-10T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:30:05","slug":"barcelona-continue-to-chase-la-liga-title-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15644","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona continue to chase La Liga title dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Uruguayan star Luis Suarez helped Barcelona beat Espanyol in the Spanish La Liga on Wednesday with a 1-0 score.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team managed to break the deadlock in the first half at Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>But Suarez came through in the 56th minute as he found the net with a close finish.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona was down to 10 men in the 49th minute when 17-year-old forward Ansu Fati was sent off.<\/p>\n<p>Espanyol was also reduced to 10 men in the 54th minute after midfielder Pol Lozano was shown a red card.<\/p>\n<p>With this victory, Barca continued to chase Real Madrid for the La Liga title as they increased to 76 points in second spot.<\/p>\n<p>Espanyol was relegated to the Spanish Segunda Division as they are at the bottom of the table with 24 points in 35 games.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez became the third-highest scorer in Barcelona&#8217;s history with 195 goals, surpassing Hungarian legend Ladislao Kubala with 194.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Uruguayan forward is only behind Cesar Rodriguez (232) and Messi (630).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0 Uruguayan star Luis Suarez helped Barcelona beat Espanyol in the Spanish La Liga on Wednesday with a 1-0 score. Neither team managed to break the deadlock in the first half at Camp Nou. But Suarez came through in the 56th minute as he found the net with a close finish. Barcelona was down to [&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-15644","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\/15644","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=15644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15645,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644\/revisions\/15645"}],"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=15644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}