{"id":515851,"date":"2026-03-10T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/515851\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:37:06","slug":"champions-league-as-it-happened-atleti-rout-spurs-barca-snatch-late-equalizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/515851\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League as it happened: Atleti rout Spurs, Bar\u00e7a snatch late equalizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 10, 2026, 06:05 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>THE CHAMPIONS!<\/p>\n<p>The round of 16 of the <a data-league-guid=\"da52796f-2621-3351-8e77-955da92ea82d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/UEFA.CHAMPIONS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UEFA Champions League<\/a> is finally here, and we had some incredible first-leg matches to savor across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In our matches happening simultaneously Tuesday, the big headline was a huge win for <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f18017e3-5d72-38a9-ec4f-af985fb9d265\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=1068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> as they defeated <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f987a4b2-f3f9-e7f6-eb7d-eda43893be5a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=367\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> 5-2, which was highlighted by the fact that the hosts scored four goals in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>On Tyneside, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec6b4352-98d3-424d-6214-778d79b47a01\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle United<\/a> looked to have snatched a crucial home win against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a>, but it was <a data-player-guid=\"de67ce6f-0991-36b9-afb9-c008f21dc4b4\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/362150\/lamine-yamal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lamine Yamal<\/a>&#8216;s penalty in the last minute to keep the tie level at 1-1 heading into the return leg next week in Spain. And finally, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"25b5e432-d3d2-939f-f73b-6e531a6fbd91\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern Munich<\/a> dominated from start to finish as they defeated <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f7f801ac-4d05-4840-e4a2-c573d04a1d52\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atalanta<\/a> 6-1 in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy all that happened from Tuesday&#8217;s matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 10, 2026, 06:05 PM ET THE CHAMPIONS! The round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-515851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}