{"id":46344,"date":"2026-04-22T07:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=46344"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:39:36","slug":"real-madrid-secure-victory-in-la-liga-close-gap-on-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/real-madrid-secure-victory-in-la-liga-close-gap-on-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid secure victory in La Liga, Close gap on Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Madrid, April 22:<\/strong> Real Madrid claimed an important win in Spain\u2019s La Liga, defeating Deportivo Alav\u00e9s 2\u20131 on Tuesday night. The victory narrows the gap with league leaders FC Barcelona to six points.<\/p>\n<p>The match, played at the iconic Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium, saw goals from Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior secure all three points for the hosts. Toni Mart\u00ednez pulled one back for Alav\u00e9s late in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Mbapp\u00e9 opened the scoring in the 30th minute, giving Madrid an early advantage. Vin\u00edcius doubled the lead in the 50th minute with a well-taken goal, putting the match firmly in Madrid\u2019s control. Alav\u00e9s managed a consolation goal in stoppage time through Mart\u00ednez, but it wasn\u2019t enough to change the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Real Madrid move to second place with 73 points from 32 matches, while Barcelona remain at the top with 79 points, having played one game more. Meanwhile, Alav\u00e9s stay 17th in the standings with 33 points from 32 games, hovering just above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid, April 22: Real Madrid claimed an important win in Spain\u2019s La Liga, defeating Deportivo Alav\u00e9s 2\u20131 on Tuesday night. The victory narrows the gap with league leaders FC Barcelona to six points. The match, played at the iconic Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium, saw goals from Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior secure all three points for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46344","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\/46344"}],"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=46344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46346,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions\/46346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}