{"id":110254,"date":"2019-04-24T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110254"},"modified":"2019-04-24T12:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:23:41","slug":"barcelona-edge-closer-to-laliga-title-with-alaves-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110254","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona edge closer to LaLiga title with Alaves win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Barcelona-edge-closer-to-LaLiga-title-with-Alaves-win.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona have one hand firmly on the LaLiga title, following their 2-0 victory over Alaves on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>With one eye on next week\u2019s Champions League semi-final against Liverpool, manager Ernesto Valverde picked a side with Lionel Messi, Jordi Alba and Arthur among other regular starters on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>After a difficult first half, Barca stepped up a gear in the second and midfielder Carles Alena gave the Catalans the lead at Mendizorroza after 54 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Luiz Suarez added the second from the penalty spot, after Tomas Pina\u2019s handball was spotted by VAR.<\/p>\n<p>The win leaves them 12 points clear at the top of the table, with four games to play.<\/p>\n<p>If second-placed Atletico Madrid lose at Valencia on Wednesday or against Real Valladolid on Saturday, Barcelona will clinch their 26th league title before they face Levante that evening.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have one hand firmly on the LaLiga title, following their 2-0 victory over Alaves on Tuesday night. With one eye on next week\u2019s Champions League semi-final against Liverpool, manager Ernesto Valverde picked a side with Lionel Messi, Jordi Alba and Arthur among other regular starters on the bench. After a difficult first half, Barca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,4923],"class_list":["post-110254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-laliga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}