{"id":59319,"date":"2025-01-10T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59319"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:44:26","slug":"ancelotti-facing-barcelona-in-supercopa-final-will-be-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/10\/ancelotti-facing-barcelona-in-supercopa-final-will-be-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancelotti: Facing Barcelona in Supercopa Final Will Be Tough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has admitted that facing Barcelona in the Supercopa final will be a tough challenge.<br \/>\nMadrid booked their place in the final after a commanding 3-0 win over Real Mallorca in Thursday\u2019s semi-final.<br \/>\nReflecting on the victory, Ancelotti expressed satisfaction with his team\u2019s performance but acknowledged the difficulty of the upcoming Cl\u00e1sico.<br \/>\n\u201cIn recent times, the Cl\u00e1sico has been unpredictable. We\u2019ve had games where we won comfortably and others where they beat us 4-0.<br \/>\n\u201cThe final will be exciting, with a lot of talent on display. We\u2019ll try to do better than Barcelona,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAncelotti added that Madrid is close to its best form but emphasized the need for consistency in performance and results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has admitted that facing Barcelona in the Supercopa final will be a tough challenge. Madrid booked their place in the final after a commanding 3-0 win over Real Mallorca in Thursday\u2019s semi-final. Reflecting on the victory, Ancelotti expressed satisfaction with his team\u2019s performance but acknowledged the difficulty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":59320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59321,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59319\/revisions\/59321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}