{"id":43614,"date":"2014-09-01T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=43614"},"modified":"2014-09-01T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:35:53","slug":"sandro-gives-barcelona-late-win-over-villarreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=43614","title":{"rendered":"Sandro gives Barcelona late win over Villarreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Teenage substitute Sandro Ramirez scored his first Barcelona goal as the Spanish runners-up snatched a late win at La Liga rivals Villarreal.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalans dominated throughout but could not find a breakthrough until 18-year-old forward Sandro tapped in.<\/p>\n<p>They hit the woodwork before half-time when Lionel Messi&#8217;s free-kick was pushed onto the post by Sergio Asenjo.<\/p>\n<p>But Villarreal almost took the lead against the run of play when Tomas Pina&#8217;s angled drive hit the post.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors controlled possession and territory but looked set to be frustrated against a Villarreal side which finished a credible sixth on their return to the Spanish top flight last season.<\/p>\n<p>That was until Sandro, another product of Barca&#8217;s La Masia academy, gleefully tucked in a loose ball after Messi was denied from a tight angle.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Neymar in action against Villarreal\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/77292000\/jpg\/_77292602_hi023701531.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"260\" \/><strong>Neymar made his return for Barcelona as a second-half substitute following injury<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Spain youth international&#8217;s winner means Barca have taken maximum points from their two La Liga matches under\u00a0new boss Luis Enrique.<\/p>\n<p>Former Barca player Enrique appears to be asking his players to play their trademark possession-based game at a higher tempo than they did under his predecessor Tata Martino.<\/p>\n<p>But for a long time, it did not look as though Villarreal would tire and allow themselves to be prised open by the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, four-time world player of the year Messi was the focal point of Barca&#8217;s brightest attacking play, creating a host of chances before providing the assist for Sandro.<\/p>\n<p>Barca right-back Dani Alves, who\u00a0ate a banana thrown on to the pitch in this fixture last season,\u00a0was jeered by Villarreal fans throughout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage substitute Sandro Ramirez scored his first Barcelona goal as the Spanish runners-up snatched a late win at La Liga rivals Villarreal. The Catalans dominated throughout but could not find a breakthrough until 18-year-old forward Sandro tapped in. They hit the woodwork before half-time when Lionel Messi&#8217;s free-kick was pushed onto the post by Sergio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":43615,"comment_status":"closed","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":[29,3,242,559,2082],"class_list":["post-43614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-water-company-limited","tag-planting-for-food","tag-reliable-electricity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614","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=43614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}