{"id":216917,"date":"2025-10-22T03:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/216917\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T03:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:15:09","slug":"champions-league-an-eventful-evening-as-43-goals-scored-five-red-cards-given-six-penalties-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/216917\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: An eventful evening as 43 goals scored, five red cards given, six penalties awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were 43 goals scored, five red cards handed out and six penalties awarded &#8211; of which five were converted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a relentless evening of Champions League football on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last season&#8217;s winners Paris St-Germain hit seven past Leverkusen, with both teams having a player sent off and the German side&#8217;s Alejandro Grimaldo missing a spot-kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PSV Eindhoven fought back from a goal down before running riot in a 6-2 win against Italian champions Napoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal, Newcastle and Manchester City all claimed convincing victories, with City&#8217;s Erling Haaland scoring for a 12th consecutive game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were goals and drama aplenty, so BBC Sport has dived into the stats behind an entertaining night in Europe&#8217;s most prestigious club tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 43 goals scored, five red cards handed out and six penalties awarded &#8211; of which five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-216917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216917","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=216917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}