{"id":88358,"date":"2025-11-26T09:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cucurella-gives-a-masterclass-nullifies-yamal-and-leads-chelseas-victory-vs-barca\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:32:50","slug":"cucurella-gives-a-masterclass-nullifies-yamal-and-leads-chelseas-victory-vs-barca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/cucurella-gives-a-masterclass-nullifies-yamal-and-leads-chelseas-victory-vs-barca\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucurella gives a masterclass: Nullifies Yamal and leads Chelsea&#8217;s victory vs. Bar\u00e7a"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wayne Rooney Praises Cucurella&#8217;s Performance Against Yamal in Chelsea&#8217;s Victory<\/h2>\n\nWayne Rooney praised the outstanding performance of Chelsea&#8217;s left-back, Marc Cucurella, who neutralized Barcelona&#8217;s young winger, Lamine Yamal, in Chelsea&#8217;s 3-0 Champions League victory.\n\nCucurella, jokingly, had suggested that Est\u00eav\u00e3o prepare for the match, which anticipated a personal marking on Yamal. The Chelsea player kept his word, closely marking his Spanish teammate without resorting to reckless fouls.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Cucurella gave the best training lesson one can have to deal with Lamine Yamal tonight. Cucurella was absolutely incredible, probably the best performance I&#8217;ve seen from a left-back in a long, long time. Doing that tonight, he&#8217;s a serious player.<\/p><cite>Wayne Rooney<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\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 kept Lamine Yamal quiet in Chelsea&#039;s win over Barcelona on Tuesday.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Marc Cucurella mantuvo a raya a Lamine Yamal en la victoria del Chelsea sobre el Barcelona el martes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nChelsea took the lead in the 27th minute with an own goal by Jules Kound\u00e9. Ronald Araujo was sent off for a second yellow card shortly before halftime, and Chelsea increased Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s misery 10 minutes after the restart with a great goal by Est\u00eav\u00e3o.\n\nLiam Delap added the icing on the cake with a goal in the 73rd minute, putting the game out of reach. However, it was the Brazilian teenager&#8217;s goal that would dominate the headlines.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Estevao showcases Chelsea credentials in victory over Barcelona<\/li><li>Is Estev\u00e3o the next Messi? Chelsea coach says to relax<\/li><li>Champions League as it happened: Chelsea overcomes Bar\u00e7a<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nThe pre-match focused heavily on the battle between Est\u00eav\u00e3o and Yamal, two 18-year-old wingers with the world at their feet, and the former won with a lot of help from Cucurella.\n\nChelsea rose to fifth place in the table before Wednesday&#8217;s matchday, 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 in Wednesday&#8217;s Premier League clash.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rooney Praises Cucurella&#8217;s Performance Against Yamal in Chelsea&#8217;s Victory Wayne Rooney praised the outstanding performance of Chelsea&#8217;s left-back, Marc Cucurella, who neutralized Barcelona&#8217;s young winger, Lamine Yamal, in Chelsea&#8217;s 3-0 Champions League victory. Cucurella, jokingly, had suggested that Est\u00eav\u00e3o prepare for the match, which anticipated a personal marking on Yamal. The Chelsea player kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,220,10710,1426],"class_list":{"0":"post-88358","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\/88358","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=88358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}