{"id":38154,"date":"2024-12-08T02:56:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=38154"},"modified":"2024-12-08T02:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:56:05","slug":"la-liga-barcelona-drops-points-again-with-a-draw-against-betis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/08\/la-liga-barcelona-drops-points-again-with-a-draw-against-betis\/","title":{"rendered":"La Liga: Barcelona Drops Points Again with a Draw Against Betis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Substitute Assane Diao scored in injury time to help Real Betis draw 2-2 with Barcelona on Saturday at the Benito Villamar\u00edn Stadium, allowing coach Manuel Pellegrini to celebrate his 500th match as a manager in La Liga.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Barcelona opened the scoring in the 39th minute with a team effort led by Lamine Yamal. Robert Lewandowski received a cross and directed the ball into the net, scoring his 16th goal of the season.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Betis showed more determination after the break, with Giovani Lo Celso equalizing from a penalty. However, the young Yamal once again delivered an excellent assist to substitute Ferran Torres, who scored in the 82nd minute to give Barcelona the lead.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Barcelona seemed to be heading towards a victory, but Diao stole an equalizer for Betis in the fourth minute of stoppage time with a brilliant backheel touch, saving Betis from a third consecutive league defeat.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Barcelona now leads the table with 38 points, five ahead of second-placed Real Madrid, who have two games in hand.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substitute Assane Diao scored in injury time to help Real Betis draw 2-2 with Barcelona on Saturday at the Benito Villamar\u00edn Stadium, allowing coach Manuel Pellegrini to celebrate his 500th match as a manager in La Liga. Barcelona opened the scoring in the 39th minute with a team effort led by Lamine Yamal. Robert Lewandowski &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38155,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38154\/revisions\/38155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}