{"id":519868,"date":"2026-01-16T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519868\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:52:09","slug":"thank-goodness-we-have-joan-garcia-ferran-torres-grateful-to-barcelona-goalkeeper-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519868\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thank goodness we have Joan Garcia\u2019 &#8211; Ferran Torres grateful to Barcelona goalkeeper again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia made a crucial late save to prevent Racing from equalising, before the visitors went up the other end of the pitch and finished things off through Lamine Yamal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s what Torres made of it all after the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t expect it to be so tough. We were a little surprised that they closed down so much. We know it depends on us. We knew we had to stretch the game out, give them some breathing room, and in the end it worked out well,\u201d he told the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat last one of the game&#8230; thank goodness we have Joan. I think the teams prepare for matches very well. They have very high-quality players, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s so difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barca had to work hard for the win but did enough to progress and will now take their place in the quarter-finals of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garcia made a crucial late save to prevent Racing from equalising, before the visitors went up the other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":519869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2618,230783,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-519868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona-team-news","9":"tag-barcelona-copa-del-rey","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115903695600757678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}