{"id":43379,"date":"2026-03-04T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43379"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:54:23","slug":"barcelona-knocked-out-of-copa-del-rey-despite-3-0-win-over-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/barcelona-knocked-out-of-copa-del-rey-despite-3-0-win-over-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona knocked out of Copa del Rey despite 3-0 win over Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Barcelona, March 3:<\/strong> Catalan giants Barcelona have been eliminated from the Copa del Rey despite securing an impressive 3-0 victory over Atletico Madrid in the second leg of the semi-final on Tuesday night. The Blaugrana bowed out of the competition after losing 4-3 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid had claimed a commanding 3-0 win in the first leg, putting Barcelona under immense pressure heading into the return fixture at Spotify Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona started strongly and took the lead in the 29th minute through Marc Bernal. The hosts doubled their advantage in first-half stoppage time when Raphinha found the back of the net, giving Barcelona a 2-0 cushion at the break.<\/p>\n<p>The comeback hopes intensified in the 72nd minute as Bernal scored his second goal of the night to make it 3-0, putting the tie level on aggregate and igniting belief among the home supporters. However, Barcelona failed to find the crucial fourth goal that would have completed a dramatic turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>Despite winning the match 3-0, Barcelona were eliminated 4-3 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory over two legs, Atletico Madrid have advanced to the Copa del Rey final. They will now face the winner of the second semi-final between Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona, March 3: Catalan giants Barcelona have been eliminated from the Copa del Rey despite securing an impressive 3-0 victory over Atletico Madrid in the second leg of the semi-final on Tuesday night. The Blaugrana bowed out of the competition after losing 4-3 on aggregate. Atletico Madrid had claimed a commanding 3-0 win in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43379"}],"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=43379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43382,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43379\/revisions\/43382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}