{"id":431210,"date":"2026-02-17T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431210\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:13:09","slug":"benfica-vs-real-madrid-champions-league-recap-jose-mourinho-is-sent-off-in-controversial-clash-with-psg-leading-at-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431210\/","title":{"rendered":"Benfica vs Real Madrid &#8211; Champions League RECAP: Jose Mourinho is sent off in controversial clash, with PSG leading at Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/106467043-0-image-m-28_1771367684290.jpg\" fetchpriority=\"high\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1121\/harry-bamforth.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HARRY BAMFORTH, LIVE SPORTS COVERAGE REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Updated:  17:35 EST, 17 February 2026   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold\">Relive Daily Mail Sport&#8217;s live blog for the latest score, team news and updates from Tuesday&#8217;s <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/champions_league\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0f3d6e50-0c05-11f1-a76c-1b2362fc354e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Champions League<\/a> games featuring Benfica vs <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/real-madrid\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0f37a1f0-0c05-11f1-a76c-1b2362fc354e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> and Monaco vs <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/psg\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0f377ae0-0c05-11f1-a76c-1b2362fc354e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PSG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DailyMailSport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/964x110_facebook_ad_sport_V1.png\" width=\"934\" height=\"110\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Benfica vs Real Madrid &#8211; Champions League RECAP: Jose Mourinho is sent off in controversial clash, with PSG leading at Monaco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By HARRY BAMFORTH, LIVE SPORTS COVERAGE REPORTER Updated: 17:35 EST, 17 February 2026 Relive Daily Mail Sport&#8217;s live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1669,97,218,59,1427,7598,8620,295,1705,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-431210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-dailymail","tag-football","tag-gb","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-live-blog","tag-monaco","tag-psg","tag-real-madrid","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431210","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=431210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}