{"id":45791,"date":"2026-04-12T09:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45791"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:50:43","slug":"barcelona-extend-dominance-9-points-clear-after-derby-thrashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/barcelona-extend-dominance-9-points-clear-after-derby-thrashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona extend dominance: 9 points clear after derby thrashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Barcelona, April 12:<\/strong> Barcelona have opened up a commanding nine-point lead at the top of La Liga. On Saturday night, the Catalan club defeated Espanyol 4\u20131 to extend their advantage over second-placed Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Playing at their home ground, Barcelona secured the win thanks to a brace from Ferran Torres and one goal each from Lamine Yamal and Marcus Rashford. Espanyol\u2019s sole consolation came from Pol Lozano.<\/p>\n<p>Torres opened the scoring in the 9th minute, giving Barcelona an early lead. He then netted his second goal of the night in the 25th minute to double the advantage. Pol Lozano pulled one back for Espanyol in the 56th minute, making it 2\u20131. However, Yamal restored Barcelona&#8217;s two-goal cushion in the 87th minute, before Rashford sealed the victory with a goal in the 89th minute, making it 4\u20131.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Barcelona sit at the top of the league table with 79 points from 31 matches. Despite the heavy defeat, Espanyol remain in 10th place with 38 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona, April 12: Barcelona have opened up a commanding nine-point lead at the top of La Liga. On Saturday night, the Catalan club defeated Espanyol 4\u20131 to extend their advantage over second-placed Real Madrid. Playing at their home ground, Barcelona secured the win thanks to a brace from Ferran Torres and one goal each from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45791","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\/45791"}],"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=45791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45793,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791\/revisions\/45793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}