{"id":379789,"date":"2026-04-15T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:16:11","slug":"champions-league-recap-psg-atletico-madrid-off-to-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379789\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League recap: PSG, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid off to semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE CHAMPIONS!<\/p>\n<p>Two of the four semifinalists in the <a data-league-guid=\"da52796f-2621-3351-8e77-955da92ea82d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/UEFA.CHAMPIONS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UEFA Champions League<\/a> have been determined.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s matches, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a> were looking to overcome a 2-0 deficit as they traveled to face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team\/_\/id\/1068\/atletico-madrid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a>, and while the visitors scored two early goals in the first half, it was Diego Simeone&#8217;s side that scored an important third goal in their tie to advance 3-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> also looked to reverse a 2-0 deficit, but it was the defending champions <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"79843c9e-0fe0-63b4-b591-9affc0dbd517\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> who added to their aggregate score by winning 2-0 at Anfield to advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy all that happened from Tuesday&#8217;s matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE CHAMPIONS! Two of the four semifinalists in the UEFA Champions League have been determined. In Tuesday&#8217;s matches,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-379789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}