{"id":240257,"date":"2025-11-02T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240257\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:49:09","slug":"barcelona-player-ratings-vs-elche-marcus-rashford-sign-that-contract-man-utd-loanee-scores-again-as-lamine-yamal-gets-over-nicki-nicole-heartbreak-with-crucial-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240257\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona player ratings vs Elche: Marcus Rashford, sign that contract! Man Utd loanee scores again as Lamine Yamal gets over Nicki Nicole heartbreak with crucial goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wojciech Szczesny (7\/10):<\/p>\n<p>Continues to impress in goal in place of the injured Joan Garcia. Made some good reflex saves at important moments of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Jules Kounde (6\/10):<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman had his hands full with Mir but pulled off some important interceptions at the back when required.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Araujo (5\/10):<\/p>\n<p>Question marks have to be asked over his role in Elche&#8217;s goal. He played Mir onside on the halfway line and then didn&#8217;t close him down quickly enough as Barca&#8217;s lead was cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eric Garcia (6\/10):<\/p>\n<p>Some of his covering work got his side out of trouble on a couple of occasions. But was also caught out of position on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Balde (7\/10):<\/p>\n<p>Showed a tremendous burst of pace to pounce on a loose ball and then drive at the Elche defence, before perfectly setting up team-mate Yamal for Barcelona&#8217;s opener. He does rely on his pace to get him out of trouble when out of position, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wojciech Szczesny (7\/10): Continues to impress in goal in place of the injured Joan Garcia. Made some good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[639,100967,100966,242,59,692,693,84875,3856,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-240257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-vs-elche","10":"tag-elche","11":"tag-features","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-l-yamal","14":"tag-laliga","15":"tag-m-rashford","16":"tag-player-ratings","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}