{"id":55139,"date":"2026-09-16T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55139"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:40:25","slug":"late-espy-goal-gives-real-madrid-thrilling-win-over-elche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/late-espy-goal-gives-real-madrid-thrilling-win-over-elche\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Espy goal gives Real Madrid thrilling win over Elche"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Sep 16:<\/strong> A stoppage-time goal from Carlos Espy secured a dramatic 3\u20132 victory for Real Madrid over Elche in La Liga on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>At the Estadio Manuel Mart\u00ednez Valero, Real Madrid took the lead in the 25th minute when Arda G\u00fcler\u2019s free-kick struck the crossbar before deflecting off goalkeeper Mat\u00edas Dituro and into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid doubled their advantage eight minutes later, with Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 finding the back of the net from Yan Diomande\u2019s assist.<\/p>\n<p>Elche fought back after the break, with Abiel Osorio pulling one back in the 71st minute. Ferran Ni\u00f1o then completed the comeback in the 83rd minute, scoring to level the game at 2\u20132.<\/p>\n<p>However, Real Madrid had the final say in stoppage time. In the first minute of added time, Mbapp\u00e9 provided the assist for Espy, who fired home the winner to seal a thrilling 3\u20132 victory for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The win keeps Real Madrid second in the La Liga standings with 15 points from six matches. Elche, meanwhile, remain at the bottom with two points from their opening six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Sep 16: A stoppage-time goal from Carlos Espy secured a dramatic 3\u20132 victory for Real Madrid over Elche in La Liga on Tuesday night. At the Estadio Manuel Mart\u00ednez Valero, Real Madrid took the lead in the 25th minute when Arda G\u00fcler\u2019s free-kick struck the crossbar before deflecting off goalkeeper Mat\u00edas Dituro and into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55139","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\/55139"}],"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=55139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55142,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55139\/revisions\/55142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}