{"id":49859,"date":"2015-05-18T01:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/espn_fc_barcelona_take_a_step_forward_in_treble_hunt_with_another_la_liga_c\/"},"modified":"2015-05-18T01:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:01:25","slug":"espn_fc_barcelona_take_a_step_forward_in_treble_hunt_with_another_la_liga_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49859","title":{"rendered":"(ESPN FC) Barcelona take a step forward in treble hunt with another La Liga crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three things from the Estadio Vicente Calderon, where Barcelona clinched the La Liga title thanks to a 1-0 victory over Atletico Madrid on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>1. First step of treble completed<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s goal midway through the second half has clinched the La Liga title for Barcelona, after a slow-burning afternoon of action saw Barcelona do enough to beat Atletico at the Calderon, meaning Real Madrid&#8217;s 4-1 win at Espanyol counted for nothing in the race at the top.<\/p>\n<p>The game very much showed the real turnaround in fortunes for both Barca and their Argentine talisman. On May 17, 2014, Tata Martino&#8217;s side were unable to beat Atletico at home to win the title. They even went ahead in that game, but with the pressure on they wilted, and Diego Godin&#8217;s header clinched last season&#8217;s championship for Diego Simeone&#8217;s men.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espnfc.us\/blog\/the-match\/60\/post\/2451526\/barcelona-take-step-in-treble-hunt-with-la-liga-crown\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three things from the Estadio Vicente Calderon, where Barcelona clinched the La Liga title thanks to a 1-0 victory over Atletico Madrid on Sunday night. 1. First step of treble completed Lionel Messi&#8217;s goal midway through the second half has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49859\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,200,125,446,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-men","category-spain","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}