{"id":44642,"date":"2026-03-04T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44642"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:42:29","slug":"copa-del-rey-exit-cant-stop-us-araujo-sets-sights-on-league-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/la-liga\/copa-del-rey-exit-cant-stop-us-araujo-sets-sights-on-league-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa Del Rey exit can\u2019t stop us: Araujo sets sights on league and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"412\">Barcelona defender <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ronald Ara\u00fajo<\/span><\/span> has sent a powerful message to rivals after the Catalan giants\u2019 bittersweet night against <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/span><\/span>, insisting that trophies remain firmly within reach despite their Copa del Rey heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"646\">The Uruguayan centre-back spoke confidently after Barcelona\u2019s clash with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Atl\u00e9tico<\/span><\/span> Madrid last night,\u00a0declaring that performances like the one against Atl\u00e9tico can propel them to domestic and European glory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"648\" data-end=\"825\">\u201cIf we keep playing as we did against Atl\u00e9tico, we will end up winning La Liga and the Champions League,\u201d Araujo said, underlining the belief growing inside the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"827\" data-end=\"1204\">Barcelona produced a stunning 3-0 victory in the Copa del Rey semi-final second leg, showing attacking intent and defensive discipline under <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Hansi Flick<\/span><\/span>. However, the result was not enough to overturn a damaging first-leg defeat, as Atl\u00e9tico advanced to the final with a dramatic 4-3 aggregate win in the <strong data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1203\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Copa del Rey<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"827\" data-end=\"1204\">Inside the club, there is a feeling that the Atl\u00e9tico match was a turning point rather than an ending. Araujo\u2019s declaration is both a challenge and a promise, that Barcelona\u2019s ambitions stretch far beyond one painful exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona defender Ronald Ara\u00fajo has sent a powerful message to rivals after the Catalan giants\u2019 bittersweet night against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4651],"tags":[2236,1879,4889,750,1823,3796,564,3919,3107,2403,490,178,48],"class_list":["post-44642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","tag-copa-del-rey","tag-diego-simeone","tag-euroe","tag-europe","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-hansi-flick","tag-la-liga","tag-ronald-araujo","tag-semi-finals","tag-ucl","tag-uefa","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44642","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44646,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44642\/revisions\/44646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}