{"id":1293,"date":"2025-12-01T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:52:57","slug":"moleiro-snatches-villarreal-late-winner-at-real-sociedad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/moleiro-snatches-villarreal-late-winner-at-real-sociedad\/","title":{"rendered":"Moleiro snatches Villarreal late winner at Real Sociedad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1-768x497.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alberto Moleiro helped Villarreal rise to joint second in La Liga on Sunday with a stoppage time winner in a 3-2 victory at Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The playmaker&nbsp;netted twice in the second half&nbsp;of a thrilling game in San Sebastian to take his team back ahead of Atletico Madrid and level on points with Real Madrid, who face Girona later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yellow Submarine secured their&nbsp;fifth consecutive league win&nbsp;to stay firmly in the Spanish title fight.&nbsp;Ayoze Perez&nbsp;fired the visitors ahead midway through the first half and teed up Moleiro for Villarreal&#8217;s second soon after the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Sociedad fought back strongly, with Carlos Soler netting on the hour mark. The Basque side ramped up the pressure and&nbsp;levelled in the final stages&nbsp;through a spectacular Ander Barrenetxea free-kick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Moleiro had the final say, smashing home in the 95th minute to maintain his team&#8217;s momentum. On Saturday champions&nbsp;Barcelona beat Alaves 3-2&nbsp;to move top of the table, before Madrid&#8217;s clash with Catalan minnows Girona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberto Moleiro helped Villarreal rise to joint second in La Liga on Sunday with a stoppage time winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}