{"id":41900,"date":"2026-02-09T06:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41900"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:47:39","slug":"real-madrid-beat-valencia-2-0-to-close-gap-on-la-liga-leaders-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/real-madrid-beat-valencia-2-0-to-close-gap-on-la-liga-leaders-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid beat Valencia 2\u20130 to close gap on La Liga leaders Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"155\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"12\">Agency, Feb 9:<\/strong>\u00a0Real Madrid claimed a crucial victory in Spain\u2019s La Liga on Sunday night, defeating Valencia 2\u20130 to close the gap on league leaders Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"470\">Playing at the Mestalla Stadium, Madrid took the lead in the 65th minute through \u00c1lvaro Carreras, who broke the deadlock with a well-taken goal. The visitors sealed the win deep into stoppage time when Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 found the net in the first minute of injury time, finishing calmly after a pass from Brahim D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"770\">With this win, Real Madrid move up to second place in the La Liga standings, collecting 57 points from 23 matches and tightening the title race at the top. Valencia, meanwhile, remain in 17th position with 23 points from the same number of games, continuing their struggle near the relegation zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Feb 9:\u00a0Real Madrid claimed a crucial victory in Spain\u2019s La Liga on Sunday night, defeating Valencia 2\u20130 to close the gap on league leaders Barcelona. Playing at the Mestalla Stadium, Madrid took the lead in the 65th minute through \u00c1lvaro Carreras, who broke the deadlock with a well-taken goal. The visitors sealed the win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41900","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\/41900"}],"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=41900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41902,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41900\/revisions\/41902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}