{"id":88270,"date":"2025-11-26T07:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cucurella-gives-a-masterclass-nullifies-yamal-and-chelsea-thrash-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:05:54","slug":"cucurella-gives-a-masterclass-nullifies-yamal-and-chelsea-thrash-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/cucurella-gives-a-masterclass-nullifies-yamal-and-chelsea-thrash-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucurella gives a masterclass: Nullifies Yamal and Chelsea thrash Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wayne Rooney Praises Cucurella After Chelsea&#8217;s Victory Over Barcelona<\/h2>\n\n\nWayne Rooney praised the outstanding performance of Chelsea&#8217;s left-back, Marc Cucurella, who was key in the 3-0 victory over Barcelona in the Champions League.\n\nCucurella, known for his humor, joked before the match about the preparation to face Lamine Yamal. He kept his word, marking the young Spanish player closely without committing reckless fouls.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;Cucurella has given the best training lesson one can have to deal with Lamine Yamal tonight,&#8221; Rooney declared.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Wayne Rooney<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nRooney added that Cucurella&#8217;s performance was &#8220;incredible&#8221;, possibly the best he has seen from a left-back in a long time, calling him a &#8220;serious&#8221; player.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1126%2Fr1580915_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Cucurella mantuvo a raya a Lamine Yamal en la victoria del Chelsea sobre el Barcelona el martes.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nChelsea took the lead in the 27th minute with an own goal by Jules Kound\u00e9. Ronald Ara\u00fajo was sent off for a second yellow card shortly before halftime, and Chelsea extended their lead with a great goal by Est\u00eav\u00e3o ten minutes after the restart.\n\nLiam Delap added another goal in the 73rd minute to seal the victory, but it was the young Brazilian&#8217;s goal that made the headlines.\n\nEstevao demonstrates his worth in Chelsea&#8217;s victory over Barcelona\n\nThe pre-match focused on the duel between Est\u00eav\u00e3o and Yamal, two young 18-year-old wingers with a promising future, and the former emerged victorious with the help of Cucurella.\n\nChelsea rose to fifth place in the table, while Bar\u00e7a fell to 15th.\n\nThe Blues have achieved three victories and a draw in the Champions League since their only defeat against Bayern Munich, who will face Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rooney Praises Cucurella After Chelsea&#8217;s Victory Over Barcelona Wayne Rooney praised the outstanding performance of Chelsea&#8217;s left-back, Marc Cucurella, who was key in the 3-0 victory over Barcelona in the Champions League. Cucurella, known for his humor, joked before the match about the preparation to face Lamine Yamal. He kept his word, marking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,220,10710,1426],"class_list":{"0":"post-88270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-cucurella","11":"tag-lamine-yamal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}