{"id":41303,"date":"2026-02-01T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41303"},"modified":"2026-02-01T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:08:38","slug":"barcelona-beat-elche-3-1-to-stay-top-of-la-liga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/barcelona-beat-elche-3-1-to-stay-top-of-la-liga\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona beat Elche 3\u20131 to stay top of La Liga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"209\"><strong data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"113\">Agency, Feb 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Barcelona secured a victory in the Spanish La Liga with a 3\u20131 win over Elche on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"211\" data-end=\"395\">Playing at the Estadio Manuel Mart\u00ednez Valero, goals from Lamine Yamal, Ferran Torres, and Marcus Rashford guided Barcelona to the win. \u00c1lvaro Rodr\u00edguez scored the lone goal for Elche.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"667\">Barcelona took an early lead in the sixth minute through Yamal. Elche responded in the 29th minute when Rodr\u00edguez found the equaliser to make it 1\u20131. However, Barcelona regained the lead before halftime as Torres converted a pass from Frenkie de Jong in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"669\" data-end=\"862\">Rashford extended Barcelona\u2019s advantage in the 72nd minute, doubling the lead and effectively sealing the result. No further goals were scored as Barcelona wrapped up a comfortable 3\u20131 victory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"1053\">With the win, Barcelona moved to the top of the La Liga standings with 55 points from 22 matches. Elche, who have collected 24 points from the same number of games, remain in 12th position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Feb 1:\u00a0Barcelona secured a victory in the Spanish La Liga with a 3\u20131 win over Elche on Saturday night. Playing at the Estadio Manuel Mart\u00ednez Valero, goals from Lamine Yamal, Ferran Torres, and Marcus Rashford guided Barcelona to the win. \u00c1lvaro Rodr\u00edguez scored the lone goal for Elche. Barcelona took an early lead in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41303","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\/41303"}],"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=41303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41305,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41303\/revisions\/41305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}