{"id":34248,"date":"2021-05-23T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=34248"},"modified":"2021-05-23T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T20:02:10","slug":"luis-suarez-earns-atletico-madrid-first-laliga-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/05\/23\/luis-suarez-earns-atletico-madrid-first-laliga-in-seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Suarez earns Atletico Madrid first Laliga in seven years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Barcelona star Luis Suarez earned rivals Atletico Madrid the first LaLiga in seven years after holding off the title challenge of city rivals Real by coming from behind to beat Real Valladolid 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second-half goals from Angel Correa and El Pistolero overturned Oscar Plano\u2019s opener to secure silverware for Diego Simeone\u2019s side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victory for the visitors relegated Valladolid and proved vital as defending champions Real \u2013 who needed to beat Villarreal to stand any chance of snatching glory \u2013 also overturned a deficit to win 2-1. The Catalonians likewise had a good-for-nothing win over Eibar 1-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been forced out of Barcelona just last summer amid an attempted clear-out at the Camp Nou, Uruguayan hitman Suarez went on to play an absolutely integral role for Atletico over the months since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His latest strike this evening \u2013 Suarez\u2019s 21st of the La Liga campaign \u2013 proved the decider in clinching the title, with El Pistolero having since allowed his emotions to flow on the Jos\u00e9 Zorrilla pitc: &#8220;Barcelona didn&#8217;t value me\u2026 they underestimated me and Atletico opened their doors to give me an opportunity. I will always be grateful to this club for trusting in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona star Luis Suarez earned rivals Atletico Madrid the first LaLiga in seven years after holding off the title challenge of city rivals Real by coming from behind to beat Real Valladolid 2-1. Second-half goals from Angel Correa and El Pistolero overturned Oscar Plano\u2019s opener to secure silverware for Diego Simeone\u2019s side. Victory for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34250,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248\/revisions\/34250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}