{"id":43192,"date":"2026-03-01T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43192"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:33:29","slug":"yamal-hat-trick-fires-barcelona-to-4-1-victory-over-villarreal-extend-lead-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/yamal-hat-trick-fires-barcelona-to-4-1-victory-over-villarreal-extend-lead-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamal hat-trick fires Barcelona to 4\u20131 victory over Villarreal, Extend lead at the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, March 3:<\/strong> Lamine Yamal\u2019s brilliant hat-trick powered Barcelona to a commanding victory in Spain\u2019s La Liga on Saturday night, as they defeated Villarreal 4\u20131 to extend their lead at the top of the table to four points.<\/p>\n<p>Playing at their home ground, Barcelona took control early with Yamal at the heart of the attack. The young star opened the scoring in the 28th minute, finishing a precise pass from Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez to give the hosts the lead. He doubled the advantage in the 37th minute, once again capitalizing on an assist from L\u00f3pez to make it 2\u20130 before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Villarreal responded in the 49th minute when Pape Gueye converted Santiago Mouri\u00f1o\u2019s assist to reduce the deficit to 2\u20131 and briefly revive the contest. However, Barcelona quickly regained control. In the 69th minute, Yamal completed his hat-trick with a composed finish from Pedri\u2019s pass, restoring a comfortable two-goal cushion.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Lewandowski sealed the emphatic win deep into injury time, scoring from Jules Kound\u00e9\u2019s assist to make it 4\u20131.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Barcelona move to 64 points from 26 matches and remain at the top of the La Liga standings. Villarreal, meanwhile, sit fourth with 51 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, March 3: Lamine Yamal\u2019s brilliant hat-trick powered Barcelona to a commanding victory in Spain\u2019s La Liga on Saturday night, as they defeated Villarreal 4\u20131 to extend their lead at the top of the table to four points. Playing at their home ground, Barcelona took control early with Yamal at the heart of the attack. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43192","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\/43192"}],"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=43192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43194,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43192\/revisions\/43194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}