{"id":20,"date":"2018-03-15T20:51:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/?p=20"},"modified":"2018-03-15T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:58:09","slug":"match-recap-real-madrid-vs-eibar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/2018\/03\/15\/match-recap-real-madrid-vs-eibar\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Recap; Real Madrid vs. Eibar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish soccer league La Liga is equipped with some of the best clubs, and plenty of amazing star players on each club. <em>Real Madrid<\/em> is no exception, hosting some of the best players around the world and is surely not a team to be taken lightly. <em>Real<\/em> was scheduled to play <em>Eibar<\/em> on the tenth of March, with most fans on either side agreeing <em>Real Madrid<\/em> would grab the win easily.<\/p>\n<p><em>Real Madrid<\/em> marched into this game against 8<sup>th<\/sup> place rival <em>Eibar<\/em> looking for a win and getting one step closer to clutching 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in La Liga. The game started off slow, the first 30 minutes saw no action and only a couple scoring opportunities for either side. Real was having a hard time keeping control of the ball, and the entire pace of the game. The star team even had a hard time getting the ball out of their own half. A slow start for <em>Real Madrid<\/em>, which is something many fans did not think would happen. However, <em>Real Madrid\u2019s<\/em> jewel Cristiano Ronaldo was the first to break the ice in the 34<sup>th<\/sup> minute. With a clean pass from Midfielder Luka Modric, Ronaldo was able to get his team a leg up against <em>Eibar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes after the half, <em>Eibar\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0forward Ivan Remis was able to cleanly connect with his header from teammate Pedro Leon\u2019s corner, equalizing the game, and making <em>Real<\/em> a little nervous. Coming up on the closing minutes of the game, Real Madrid was given a good attacking chance in the 83<sup>rd<\/sup>-84<sup>th<\/sup> minute. The ball came in off the wing from defender Dani Carvajal\u2019s cross into the box, where Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo headed it past the keeper with ease, snatching up a win for his club and collecting the game ball for the day with his two spectacular goals. <em>Real<\/em> manager and ex-<em>Real<\/em> star Zinedine Zidane had nothing but praise for his club and stated Ronaldo was, \u201cfrom another galaxy.\u201d Real Madrid will be looking to continue with their winning streak and continue their great form throughout the rest of the competition and are hoping to be able to grab some silverware with the conclusion of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish soccer league La Liga is equipped with some of the best clubs, and plenty of amazing star players on each club. Real Madrid is no exception, hosting some of the best players around the world and is surely not a team to be taken lightly. Real was scheduled to play Eibar on the tenth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/2018\/03\/15\/match-recap-real-madrid-vs-eibar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Match Recap; Real Madrid vs. Eibar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/smithrw18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}