{"id":2352,"date":"2014-03-03T04:42:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2014-03-03T04:42:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:42:54","slug":"bacelona-beat-almeria-to-get-back-in-tittle-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/bacelona-beat-almeria-to-get-back-in-tittle-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacelona Beat Almeria To Get Back In Tittle Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona recorded an emphatic 4-1 victory over Almeria to close to within a point of Primera Division leaders Real at the Nou Camp Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After Real and city rivals Atletico Madrid had played out a 2-2 draw earlier in the day, Sunday&#8217;s late contest afforded Barcelona the chance to get right back in the title mix after their costly defeat at Real Sociedad last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Sanchez set the hosts on their way in the 10th minute before a superb Lionel Messi free-kick made it 2-0 inside 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A moment&#8217;s sloppiness in the Barca backline allowed Angel Trujillo to pull one back for Almeria and at 2-1 Barca endured more than one or two nervy moments as the visitors probed for a leveller.<\/p>\n<p>It took until the 83rd minute for Barcelona to finally put the contest to bed, Carles Puyol following up with a smart finish after Messi&#8217;s header had come back off the bar, while there was still time for Xavi to curl home from 20 yards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Barcelona recorded an emphatic 4-1 victory over Almeria to close to within a point of Primera Division leaders Real at the Nou Camp Sunday. After Real and city rivals Atletico Madrid had played out a 2-2 draw earlier in the day, Sunday&#8217;s late contest afforded Barcelona the chance to get right back in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2353,"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\/2352"}],"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=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}