{"id":1782,"date":"2014-02-13T00:24:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T00:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2014-02-13T05:38:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:38:55","slug":"barca-force-real-sociedad-to-set-a-derby-cup-final-with-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/barca-force-real-sociedad-to-set-a-derby-cup-final-with-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Barca Force Real Sociedad To Set A Derby Cup Final With Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona advanced to the Copa del Rey final courtesy of a 1-1 draw at Anoeta with Real Sociedad to book a final date with Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>La Blaugrana dominated the ball and played some seriously slick stuff; they justly took the lead before half-time as Lionel Messi dribbled 40 metres before firing a powerful effort into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors missed a glut of chances in the second half, and Antoine Griezmann&#8217;s wonderstrike proved solely a consolation.<\/p>\n<p>Real Sociedad come to life in the final four minutes, but they finished miles behind (1-3) on aggregate. Barcelona eased this one.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever team wins the Copa del Rey, it will be a first major trophy for their coach in Spanish football. Carlo Ancelotti was named Real boss in the summer, with Gerardo Martino taking over at Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona will play Real Madrid at a yet-to-be-confirmed venue on 19 April.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Barcelona advanced to the Copa del Rey final courtesy of a 1-1 draw at Anoeta with Real Sociedad to book a final date with Real Madrid. La Blaugrana dominated the ball and played some seriously slick stuff; they justly took the lead before half-time as Lionel Messi dribbled 40 metres before firing a powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}