{"id":13107,"date":"2026-09-17T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=13107"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:32:18","slug":"barcelona-extends-its-perfect-run-in-spanish-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/barcelona-extends-its-perfect-run-in-spanish-football-17092026\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Extends its Perfect Run in Spanish Football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barcelona maintained their perfect run in the Spanish Football League today by thrashing Racing de Santander 7\u20132 at the Spotify Camp Nou, securing six wins in as many matches.<br>The <em>Azulgranas<\/em>\u2014champions of La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup\u2014once again unleashed their attacking arsenal under the guidance of German manager Hansi Flick, reaching 18 points\u2014three clear of their arch-rivals, Real Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jo\u00e3o Cancelo opened the scoring in just the eighth minute, finishing a Lamine Yamal assist with his right foot\u2014a play that began to tip the scales early on in favor of the <em>Cul\u00e9s<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 25th minute, Brazilian forward Raphinha masterfully converted a penalty to extend the lead, though Maguette Gueye briefly revived the visitors\u2019 hopes by scoring from the center of the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before halftime, an own goal by Racing and a second strike from Raphinha\u2014set up by Dani Olmo\u2014restored a comfortable cushion for Barcelona, \u200b\u200breflecting their attacking dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visitors, who won the second division last season, struck again in the second half through Yassir Zabiri, but the rally did little to alter the course of a prolific night for the *Azulgranas*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raphinha completed his hat-trick in the 67th minute with another penalty, bringing his tally to nine goals and making him the league\u2019s top scorer; meanwhile, Gabriel Jesus added to the rout off Yamal\u2019s second assist, with Yamal himself capping off the team\u2019s offensive display with a goal of his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Racing, managed by Jos\u00e9 Alberto L\u00f3pez, now holds a record of two wins, one draw, and three losses, remaining on seven points in their return to the top flight of Spanish football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona maintained their perfect run in the Spanish Football League today by thrashing Racing de Santander 7&ndash;2 at the Spotify Camp Nou, securing six wins in as many matches.The Azulgranas&mdash;champions&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":"{\"authors\":[42],\"author_categories\":{\"42\":\"1\"},\"fallback_author_user\":\"1\",\"ppma_author_box_select\":\"\",\"selected_authors\":[{\"id\":42,\"display_name\":\"Radio Habana Cuba\",\"is_guest\":1,\"category_id\":\"1\"}]}"},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13109,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions\/13109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}