{"id":11562,"date":"2022-04-22T07:46:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T02:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=215958"},"modified":"2022-04-22T07:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T02:16:42","slug":"gerard-pique-ronald-araujo-dani-alves-go-off-injured-in-fc-barcelonas-win-over-real-sociedad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/gerard-pique-ronald-araujo-dani-alves-go-off-injured-in-fc-barcelonas-win-over-real-sociedad\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Piqu\u00e9, Ronald Araujo, Dani Alves go off injured in FC Barcelona\u2019s win over Real Sociedad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Real Sociedad were beaten to a 1-0 loss by Barcelona. Barcelona pulled ahead soon on courtesy of Aubameyang\u2019s strike, and they hung on for the triumph, showing up one of their finest defensive displays of the term. That is a critical three points for Xavi\u2019s side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the second half, Bar\u00e7a was the second finest but clung on with a victory that places them again in the second spot. This is the very first time Real Sociedad have been defeated at home in LaLiga this year \u2013 or perhaps even conceded a goal. The Basques fall out on an opportunity to surpass Real Betis and are still in sixth place. Barcelona has yet more injury issues after Piqu\u00e9, Araujo, and Alves all left the field exhausted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s tough to overvalue the magnitude of this victory for Barcelona, who move to 2nd spot in LaLiga, six points higher than Real Betis in fifth place and eight points ahead of Sociedad. A setback would have inflicted massive damage to Xavi\u2019s aspirations of heading the Catalan titans to Champions League qualification, but remarkable displays from Ter Stegen, Pique, Busquets, and DeJong culminated in a much-needed win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As things hold, Barcelona will reclaim second place in LaLiga, pumping up their likelihood of qualifying for the Champions League whilst also dealing a major hit to Real Sociedad. Aubameyang shrugged Torres\u2019 cross back to the house after Gavi managed to win the ball over in glorious style. Torres, Aubameyang, and De Jong have all been close to boosting Xavi\u2019s cushion, but Isak wasted a potential to pull the host\u2019s level on the brink of half-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aubameyang\u2019s first-half header earned Barcelona a thumping victory against Real Sociedad. The Blaugrana were compelled to pay in the second half, clutching to their slim advantage despite having lost several players to injury, with Sorloth wasting the hosts\u2019 best attempts to equalise twice. It\u2019s a 5th straight away league victory for Xavi\u2019s squad. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona went past Real Sociedad with a sloppy 1-0 victory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":34032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[313,2286,2889,238,728,2832,3106,2332,2786,3107],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-aubameyang","tag-barcelona-fc","tag-dani-alves","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-ferran-torres","tag-gavi","tag-gerard-pique","tag-pierre-emerick-aubameyang","tag-real-sociedad","tag-ronald-araujo"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}