{"id":379097,"date":"2026-04-03T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379097\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:22:08","slug":"barca-rout-real-madrid-to-book-champions-league-semi-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379097\/","title":{"rendered":"Barca rout Real Madrid to book Champions League semi spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona booked a Women&#8217;s Champions League semi-final tie against Bayern Munich after thrashing Real Madrid 6-0 in front of a crowd of more than 60,000 at Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>Pere Romeu\u2019s side completed an emphatic 12-2 aggregate win as captain Alexia Putellas marked her 500th appearance for the club by opening the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Graham Hansen struck twice, while Irene Paredes, Ewa Pajor and Esme Brugt were also on target.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third heavy defeat Barca have inflicted on Real in just over a week after they followed up their 6-2 first-leg win by beating their arch rivals 3-0 in LaLiga F on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Record eight-time winners Lyon will face Arsenal in the last four after extra-time goals from Melcie Dumornay, Damaris Egurrola and Tabitha Chawinga secured a 4-1 aggregate win against Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Germany, Lyon levelled the tie through Lily Yohannes\u2019 first-half effort, and midfielders Dumornay and Egurrola struck within the space of five minutes at the end of the first period of extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi forward Tabitha Chawinga added Lyon\u2019s fourth in the closing stages of the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal overcame Chelsea 3-2 on aggregate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0401\/1566356-womens-champions-league-bayern-munich-advance-to-sems\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">despite a 1-0 loss in Wednesday&#8217;s second leg<\/a> at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona booked a Women&#8217;s Champions League semi-final tie against Bayern Munich after thrashing Real Madrid 6-0 in front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-379097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}