{"id":171902,"date":"2025-12-02T23:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171902\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:56:07","slug":"raphinha-leads-comeback-for-barcelona-in-victory-against-atletico-madrid-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171902\/","title":{"rendered":"Raphinha leads comeback for Barcelona in victory against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid | Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona recovered to secure a 3-1 win against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> as goals from Raphinha, Dani Olmo and Ferran Torres handed the visitors their first La Liga defeat since August and extended the champions\u2019 lead at the top after an intense clash on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The result puts Barcelona<\/a> on 37 points, four ahead of second-placed Real Madrid, who visit Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday. Atl\u00e9tico, arriving at Camp Nou on a seven-game winning run in all competitions, remain in fourth place with 31 points.<\/p>\n

Atl\u00e9tico struck first in the 19th minute through \u00c1lex Baena on the counter but Raphinha equalised seven minutes later with a close-range strike after a killer through pass from Pedri.<\/p>\n

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Barcelona\u2019s persistence paid off as Olmo pounced on a loose ball inside the box and fired a low strike to score in the 65th minute and Torres wrapped up the points by finishing off another counterattack deep in added time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona recovered to secure a 3-1 win against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid as goals from Raphinha, Dani Olmo and Ferran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-171902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}