Jan 28, 2026, 05:29 PM ET<\/p>\n
THE CHAMPIONS!<\/p>\n
Drama, goals and nonstop excitement across Europe happened on the final matchday of the league phase of the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League<\/a>, when 18 matches kicked off simultaneously to decide which teams advance to the next round and which are eliminated.<\/p>\n Some of the key highlights of today were Chelsea<\/a> defeating Napoli<\/a> 3-2 to see them finish in the top eight and to deny Antonio Conte’s team a playoff spot overall. Also, we saw Benfica<\/a> defeat Real Madrid<\/a> 4-2 to not only see Jose Mourinho’s side qualify for the playoff but for \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa’s team join them as well.<\/p>\n Finally, Arsenal<\/a> finished with a perfect record, winning all eight games in the league phase following a 3-2 win over Kairat Almaty<\/a>, and finished in first place.<\/p>\n Enjoy everything that happened on Wednesday evening in the Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 28, 2026, 05:29 PM ET THE CHAMPIONS! Drama, goals and nonstop excitement across Europe happened on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-440429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}