{"id":1238292,"date":"2022-10-29T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/29\/lewandowski-scores-late-as-barcelona-pip-valencia\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T21:47:00","slug":"lewandowski-scores-late-as-barcelona-pip-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/29\/lewandowski-scores-late-as-barcelona-pip-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowski scores late as Barcelona pip Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3481175-70970668-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Robert Lewandowski of FC Barcelona during the La Liga Santander match between Valencia v FC Barcelona at the Estadio de Mestalla on October 29, 2022 in Valencia Spain Image credit: Getty Images\" title=\"Robert Lewandowski of FC Barcelona during the La Liga Santander match between Valencia v FC Barcelona at the Estadio de Mestalla on October 29, 2022 in Valencia Spain  Image credit: Getty Images\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Lewandowski of FC Barcelona during the La Liga Santander match between Valencia v FC Barcelona at the Estadio de Mestalla on October 29, 2022 in Valencia Spain<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Robert Lewandowski scored a winner deep into stoppage-time to send Barcelona back to the top of La Liga with a 1-0 victory over Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>It looked set to be a frustrating night for Xavi Hernandez, who also lost defenders Eric Garcia and Jules Kounde to injury, until Lewandowski popped up in the third minute of injury-time to score.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate to bounce back after a disappointing exit from the Champions League group stages, Barcelona dominated from the first whistle, eager to take the initiative.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The best early chances fell to Ansu Fati, who was restored to the side having been dropped to the bench for the defeat to Bayern Munich on Wednesday. The 19-year-old was through on goal but couldn\u2019t find a way past onrushing goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and minutes later he found the back of the net but was clearly in an offside position, cutting short his celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski went even closer on the stroke of half-time, his header from Jordi Alba\u2019s cross crashing agonisingly off the base of the post.<\/p>\n<p>Valencia thought they had taken the lead against the run of play a few minutes after the restart when Samuel Lino finished confidently. However, the goal was chalked off following a lengthy VAR check which showed the ball brushed the arm of Marcos Andre in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>Gennaro Gattuso\u2019s tactical tweaks ensured Valencia were much more organised than they had been in the first half, and they largely limited Barcelona to half chances in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>There were warning signs though as Ferran Torres failed to connect with Pedri\u2019s cross with the goal gaping before Lewandowski stretched to meet Raphinha\u2019s delivery to bag the winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>Victory sees Barcelona ahead of Real Madrid on goal difference, but Los Blancos will play their game in hand on Sunday at home to Girona. Meanwhile, Valencia remain 10th.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"5n48NzM-RFo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stay Home: Paul &amp; Silas Week 38 Episode 2\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5n48NzM-RFo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lewandowski of FC Barcelona during the La Liga Santander match between Valencia v FC Barcelona at the Estadio de Mestalla on October 29, 2022 in Valencia Spain Image credit: Getty Images Robert Lewandowski scored a winner deep into stoppage-time to send Barcelona back to the top of La Liga with a 1-0 victory over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[656,749,2108,7135,2929,556],"class_list":["post-1238292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-late","tag-lewandowski","tag-pip","tag-scores","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}