{"id":291982,"date":"2020-12-12T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=291982"},"modified":"2020-12-12T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T08:55:34","slug":"madrid-derby-sets-laliga-alight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=291982","title":{"rendered":"Madrid derby sets LaLiga alight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1507616\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"61.931224209078\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1507622 jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"502\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15230279634005.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15230279634005.jpg?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15230279634005.jpg?resize=768%2C602&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15230279634005.jpg?resize=58%2C45&amp;ssl=1 58w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15230279634005.jpg?resize=247%2C194&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15230279634005.jpg?resize=166%2C130&amp;ssl=1 166w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/12\/15230279634005.jpg?resize=640%2C502&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\"><\/p>\n<p>Football fans can look forward to the latest edition of a classic La Liga rivalry, as Real Madrid host Atletico Madrid at Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano today. The match will be transmitted live on DStv and GOtv.<\/p>\n<p>The Madrid derby, or \u2018El Derbi Madrileno\u2019, is one of the highlights of the Spanish football calendar and sees the reigning La Liga champions, Real Madrid, play host to the team many pundits will replace them on the throne, Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>SuperSport is the only place to get English commentary from the legendary La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>While Los Blancos have struggled to find consistency in performances and results, the Rojiblancos have looked organised, disciplined and determined \u2013 all characteristics associated with manager Diego Simeone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m only interested in the team winning. We\u2019ll always look for ways to win. Sometimes we will play better, other times no. But that\u2019s football,\u201d said the Argentine.<\/p>\n<p>Real manager Zinedine Zidane has the tendency of pulling a rabbit out of the hat when a result is needed most, and it would be no major surprise if that happened again this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team performs best when we are under pressure, with intensity and seriousness. I hope we can rise to the challenge and produce another strong performance when we need it most,\u201d said the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardngr.com\">Vanguard News Nigeria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football fans can look forward to the latest edition of a classic La Liga rivalry, as Real Madrid host Atletico Madrid at Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano today. The match will be transmitted live on DStv and GOtv. The Madrid derby, or \u2018El Derbi Madrileno\u2019, is one of the highlights of the Spanish football calendar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291983,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[16068,4923,5278,5845],"class_list":["post-291982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atlet","tag-laliga","tag-real-madrid","tag-zidane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291982","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=291982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}