{"id":763554,"date":"2022-01-24T05:49:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/frenkie-de-jong-strikes-late-to-hand-barcelona-win-at-alaves\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T05:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:49:24","slug":"frenkie-de-jong-strikes-late-to-hand-barcelona-win-at-alaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/frenkie-de-jong-strikes-late-to-hand-barcelona-win-at-alaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenkie de Jong strikes late to hand Barcelona win at Alaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3295698-67394228-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"3295698-67394228-2560-1440\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Barcelona grabbed a late 1-0 win over Alaves courtesy of a Frenkie de Jong winner.<\/p>\n<p>Barca were looking to bounce back against their Copa del Rey extra-time defeat to Athletic Club but were made to do so without Ansu Fati, out with another injury.<\/p>\n<p>A win would have taken Xaxi Hernandez\u2019s side into fifth and in with a chance of Champions League qualification next season, but they struggled to create much beyond a Luuk de Jong volley early in the first half, though they retained the ball for much of the first half.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Alaves \u2013 celebrating their 101st anniversary \u2013 continued to stifle their more glamorous opponents as Barcelona delivered a succession of crosses without forcing anything particularly dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona had a scare when Tomas Pina had a decent penalty shout turned down, and Joselu flashed a header wide in a five-minute spell.<\/p>\n<p>With the game looking destined for a draw Ferran Torres picked out De Jong for a simple finish with three minutes of normal time remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The win leaves Barcelona in fifth, one point off Atletico Madrid in fourth, and Alaves remain 19th, in the relegation zone. Both sides remain in their own kind of danger.<\/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=\"go2s2YaympU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obra on Adom TV (21-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/go2s2YaympU?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>Barcelona grabbed a late 1-0 win over Alaves courtesy of a Frenkie de Jong winner. Barca were looking to bounce back against their Copa del Rey extra-time defeat to Athletic Club but were made to do so without Ansu Fati, out with another injury. A win would have taken Xaxi Hernandez\u2019s side into fifth and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2925,656,2926,326,2927,749,2928,309],"class_list":["post-763554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alaves","tag-barcelona","tag-frenkie","tag-hand","tag-jong","tag-late","tag-strikes","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763554","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=763554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}