{"id":120861,"date":"2019-05-26T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T11:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=120861"},"modified":"2019-05-26T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T11:04:46","slug":"copa-del-rey-final-what-valverde-said-after-barcelonas-2-1-defeat-to-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=120861","title":{"rendered":"Copa del Rey final: What Valverde said after Barcelona’s 2-1 defeat to Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barcelona Manager, Ernesto Valverde, has insisted he feels \u201cfine\u201d, despite his side\u2019s poor end to the season.<\/p>\n

The LaLiga champions were beaten 2-1 by Valencia in, the Copa del Rey final on Saturday night. <\/p>\n

It means that Barca have seen their hopes of winning a Treble evaporate over the last 19 days, after giving up a three-goal lead in their Champions League semi-final clash against Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Valverde declined to answer a journalist asking him if his \u201ccredit has run out\u201d as Barca coach after recent results but did confirm he\u2019s keen to continue to lead the team forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel fine. When you win, obviously you feel much better, much happier \u2014 but this is a different feeling to [Liverpool], even though we\u2019ve lost again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not been able to fulfil the expectations that we\u2019ve created throughout the season. A month ago, we celebrated the La Liga title thinking about winning a Treble and we\u2019ve been knocked off that path at the decisive moment. We\u2019re here to win trophies, nothing else.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barcelona Manager, Ernesto Valverde, has insisted he feels \u201cfine\u201d, despite his side\u2019s poor end to the season. The LaLiga champions were beaten 2-1 by Valencia in, the Copa del Rey final on Saturday night. It means that Barca have seen their hopes of winning a Treble evaporate over the last 19 days, after giving up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120862,"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":[34,3367],"class_list":["post-120861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-liverpool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120861","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=120861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}