{"id":39257,"date":"2026-01-05T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=39257"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:13:56","slug":"madrid-cruise-past-betis-as-gonzalo-garcia-nets-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/madrid-cruise-past-betis-as-gonzalo-garcia-nets-hat-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid cruise past Betis as Gonzalo Garc\u00eda nets hat-trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p data-start=\"63\" data-end=\"252\"><strong>Agency, Jan 5:<\/strong> Young forward Gonzalo Garc\u00eda starred with a brilliant hat-trick as Real Madrid registered a commanding 5\u20131 victory over Real Betis in Spain\u2019s La Liga on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"497\">Playing at their home ground Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, Madrid dominated the contest with Garc\u00eda leading the charge, while Asensio and Francisco Garc\u00eda also found the back of the net. Juan Hern\u00e1ndez scored the lone goal for Betis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"779\">Madrid took an early lead in the 20th minute when Garc\u00eda converted a pass from Rodrygo. The young forward doubled the advantage in the 50th minute, scoring his second goal of the night. Just six minutes later, Asensio added a third to put Madrid firmly in control.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"781\" data-end=\"1108\">Betis pulled one back in the 66th minute through Hern\u00e1ndez to make it 3\u20131, but any hopes of a comeback were quickly dashed. Garc\u00eda completed his hat-trick in the 82nd minute, restoring Madrid\u2019s three-goal cushion. Deep into stoppage time, Francisco Garc\u00eda capped off the emphatic win by scoring Madrid\u2019s fifth goal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1110\" data-end=\"1293\">With the victory, Real Madrid move to the top of the La Liga table with 45 points from 19 matches. Real Betis, who have played one game fewer, remain sixth with 28 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Jan 5: Young forward Gonzalo Garc\u00eda starred with a brilliant hat-trick as Real Madrid registered a commanding 5\u20131 victory over Real Betis in Spain\u2019s La Liga on Sunday night. Playing at their home ground Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, Madrid dominated the contest with Garc\u00eda leading the charge, while Asensio and Francisco Garc\u00eda also found the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39268,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257\/revisions\/39268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}