{"id":320836,"date":"2025-02-02T08:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=320836"},"modified":"2025-02-02T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T10:40:55","slug":"el-hilali-decisive-in-espanyols-victory-over-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/el-hilali-decisive-in-espanyols-victory-over-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"El Hilali decisive in Espanyol\u2019s victory over Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>La Liga\u2019s Matchday 22 saw a major upset with Espanyol Barcelona defeating league leaders Real Madrid 1-0. Moroccan player Omar El Hilali provided the decisive assist. The Catalan side held on to their lead, handing Los Blancos their third league defeat of the season.<\/p>\n\n<p>Despite traveling to Barcelona, Real Madrid\u2019s supporters were confident, given Espanyol\u2019s struggles this season. However, the match took an unexpected turn. Espanyol\u2019s defense, led by goalkeeper Joan Garc\u00eda, withstood Madrid\u2019s attacks, while El Hilali stood out defensively, notably with a crucial intervention in the 59th minute to stop Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 after he dribbled past Romero inside the box.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the second half, Espanyol not only defended well but also capitalized on Real Madrid\u2019s high defensive line. In the 85th minute, Antonio Roca, \u00c1lvaro Tejero, and Omar El Hilali launched a counterattack, with the Moroccan delivering a perfect cross from the right flank to Romero, who fired an unstoppable shot past Courtois, securing Espanyol\u2019s sixth win of the season.<\/p>\n\n<p>This victory allowed Espanyol, with El Hilali and Walid Cheddira (who stayed on the bench), to climb out of the relegation zone into 17th place. Meanwhile, Brahim D\u00edaz and his Madrid teammates, despite his late 87th-minute appearance, remain atop the standings, just one point ahead of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, whom they will face next week in a crucial Madrid derby and another tactical showdown between Carlo Ancelotti and Diego Simeone.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<iframe title=\"HIGHLIGHTS | Espanyol 1-0 Real Madrid | LaLiga 2024\/25\" width=\"755\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmio6k-vhSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Liga\u2019s Matchday 22 saw a major upset with Espanyol Barcelona defeating league leaders Real Madrid 1-0. Moroccan player Omar El Hilali provided the decisive assist. The Catalan side held on to their lead, handing Los Blancos their third league defeat of the season. Despite traveling to Barcelona, Real Madrid\u2019s supporters were confident, given Espanyol\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-320836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320837,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320836\/revisions\/320837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}