{"id":176115,"date":"2025-09-28T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176115\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:29:08","slug":"barcelona-2-1-real-sociedad-robert-lewandowski-scores-winner-in-comeback-win-as-barca-go-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176115\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona 2-1 Real Sociedad: Robert Lewandowski scores winner in comeback win as Barca go top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robert Lewandowski nodded in a second-half winner as Barcelona came from behind to beat Real Sociedad and top the La Liga table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the scores locked at 1-1 Barca manager Hansi Flick brought on Ballon d&#8217;Or runner-up Lamine Yamal in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just seconds later the 18-year-old beat a defender before dinking in a perfect cross which an unmarked Lewandowski headed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Real Sociedad had taken a shock lead in the 31st minute on the counter-attack when Alvaro Odriozola slid in to turn home Ander Barrenetxea&#8217;s low cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the hosts levelled two minutes before half-time when defender Jules Kounde met Marcus Rashford&#8217;s corner with a thumping header.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rashford had another fine game for the hosts, regularly carving out chances down the left and had dipping shots well saved by Sociedad keeper Alex Remiro either side of half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Manchester United loanee was brought off in the 78th minute with Flick presumably having one eye on his side&#8217;s Champions League tie with Paris St-Germain on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sociedad had a late opportunity to level after Kounde dawdled and had the ball pinched off him, but Takefusa Kubo was unable to finish off the move, instead clattering the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 30 seconds later, Barca went up the other end with Yamal setting up Ferran Torres who found Lewandowski, but the Pole&#8217;s effort bounced off the underside of the bar, down on to the goalline but stayed out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ultimately though, the miss wasn&#8217;t costly as the defending champions held on for their sixth win in seven league matches and move a point clear of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c0q7ppe8wq8t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid, who lost 5-2 at Atletico Madrid<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Lewandowski nodded in a second-half winner as Barcelona came from behind to beat Real Sociedad and top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-176115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}