{"id":7095,"date":"2026-05-11T07:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:31:46","slug":"barcelonas-dream-is-real-madrids-worst-nightmare-winners-and-losers-as-red-hot-marcus-rashford-surely-seals-permanent-transfer-by-delivering-la-liga-title-in-el-clasico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=7095","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona&#8217;s dream is Real Madrid&#8217;s worst nightmare! Winners and losers as red-hot Marcus Rashford surely seals permanent transfer by delivering La Liga title in El Clasico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p><span>How mightily deserved this was for the German. His Barcelona tenure has been more or less electric from day one. He has taken a possession-first side that looked a little lost and made them a thrilling attacking unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This was, quite sneakily, one of the best showings of the season; for all of the talk of Madrid&#8217;s injury issues, Barca, too, were thin up front, at right-back, and in midfield. There was no Lamine Yamal, not much Raphinha, and Robert Lewandowski came off the bench.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Throw in the tragic news that Flick&#8217;s father passed away overnight, and this seems a remarkable job of coaching on the day. It&#8217;s now back-to-back titles, and a third is surely in sight in 2026-27 given the state Madrid find themselves in. He&#8217;s here until at least 2028, and the Blaugrana will be thrilled to have him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How mightily deserved this was for the German. His Barcelona tenure has been more or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}