{"id":19066,"date":"2025-09-14T00:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19066"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:04:06","slug":"atletico-beat-villarreal-for-first-liga-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19066","title":{"rendered":"Atletico beat Villarreal for first Liga win"},"content":{"rendered":"
Atletico Madrid beat Villarreal 2-0 to earn their first win of the La Liga season on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Diego Simeone’s side suffered two defeats and a draw in their opening fixtures but produced a far more impressive display to triumph at their Metropolitano stadium with goals from Pablo Barrios and debutant Nico Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

The Rojiblancos were forced to bring off Julian Alvarez, Robin Le Normand and David Hancko with knocks, a worry ahead of their Champions League opener at Liverpool on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Our fans supported us today when we needed it most,” Atletico skipper Koke told Movistar.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully the (hurt) players rest well, we have a very important game against Liverpool.”<\/p>\n

Simeone brought midfielder Gonzalez straight into the team after his deadline day arrival from Juventus, as well as handing Antoine Griezmann his first start of the season.<\/p>\n

Barrios opened the scoring after nine minutes after a Villarreal defensive error which left Julian Alvarez with the ball in the box. The Argentina international unselfishly squared for Barrios to stroke home.<\/p>\n

Villarreal have started the season well but struggled to find a way through an Atletico defence which looked far more solid than in their opening fixtures.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Pepe struck the crossbar for the visitors before half-time but that was as close as the Yellow Submarine got.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez doubled Atletico’s lead with a header from Marcos Llorente’s cross early in the second half.<\/p>\n

Clement Lenglet headed in a third but it was disallowed for a push, as Atletico stayed in the driving seat.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atletico Madrid beat Villarreal 2-0 to earn their first win of the La Liga season on Saturday. Diego Simeone’s side suffered two defeats and a draw in their opening fixtures but produced a far more impressive display to triumph at their Metropolitano stadium with goals from Pablo Barrios and debutant Nico Gonzalez. The Rojiblancos were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}