{"id":146210,"date":"2025-09-18T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146210\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:29:07","slug":"champions-league-recap-man-city-beat-napoli-rashford-stars-for-barca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146210\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League recap: Man City beat Napoli, Rashford stars for Bar\u00e7a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE CHAMPIONS! Matchday 1 of the 2025-26 <a data-league-guid=\"da52796f-2621-3351-8e77-955da92ea82d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/league\/_\/name\/UEFA.CHAMPIONS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UEFA Champions League<\/a> season is complete, and Thursday&#8217;s slate delivered plenty of fun, so let&#8217;s review.<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland stepped up as <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> beat <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"20179aab-ac9f-93cf-f139-404e49a3f3cb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=114\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napoli<\/a> after the Italian side were reduced to 10 men in the first half. In the other big game of the day, Marcus Rashford showed Manchester United what they&#8217;re missing with two well-taken goals as <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a> held on to win at Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up with all the action and what you missed on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE CHAMPIONS! Matchday 1 of the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League season is complete, and Thursday&#8217;s slate delivered plenty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-146210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}