{"id":107567,"date":"2015-04-12T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=107567"},"modified":"2015-04-12T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T07:42:28","slug":"real-madrid-ease-to-win-over-eibar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=107567","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid ease to win over Eibar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Real Madrid moved closer to league leaders Barcelona after a comfortable victory against Eibar.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 38th league goal of the season with a fortuitous free-kick after a mistake by goalkeeper Xabier Irureta.<\/p>\n<p>On-loan striker Javier Hernandez then ended his goal drought with a header before Jese Rodriguez added a third.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona threw away a two-goal lead to draw at Sevilla, going two points ahead of Real with seven games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid play neighbours Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League&#8217;s quarter-final on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The European champions were without Gareth Bale due to injury and midfielders Toni Kroos and James Rodriguez who missed the match through suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Carlo Ancelotti handed a start to Hernandez, only the Mexican&#8217;s second since joining Madrid in September.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, who had a yellow card and a ban overturned by the Spanish football federation, opened the scoring after 21 minutes &#8211; his eighth in four games.<\/p>\n<p>The Ballon d&#8217;Or winner&#8217;s free-kick struck from 25 yards caught out Eibar goalkeeper Irureta as it bounced in front and then over him into the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez then scored his first goal since October as he connected with Alvaro Arbeloa&#8217;s cross to put a glancing header to the far post.<\/p>\n<p>Jese then wrapped up the victory with a strike from the edge of the area, eight minutes from time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-feature image full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/82257000\/jpg\/_82257699_hernandez_afp.jpg\" alt=\"Javier Hernandez\" width=\"624\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Hernandez scored his fourth league goal for Real Madrid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-feature image full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/82257000\/jpg\/_82257827_jese_getty2.jpg\" alt=\"Jese\" width=\"624\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Jese scored his first league goal of the season in his first start<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid moved closer to league leaders Barcelona after a comfortable victory against Eibar. Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 38th league goal of the season with a fortuitous free-kick after a mistake by goalkeeper Xabier Irureta. On-loan striker Javier Hernandez then ended his goal drought with a header before Jese Rodriguez added a third. Barcelona threw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":107569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-107567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}