{"id":531854,"date":"2026-03-19T01:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531854\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:04:08","slug":"champions-league-recap-liverpool-atleti-and-bayern-advance-with-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531854\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League recap: Liverpool, Atleti and Bayern advance with ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 18, 2026, 05:56 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>THE CHAMPIONS!<\/p>\n<p>We had some more matches in 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> as figured out which teams have qualified for the quarterfinals. Four teams booked their spots Tuesday, and the remaining four were decided Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> brushed <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5b23d52e-b1ae-2e88-5263-936f59c03912\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=432\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galatasaray<\/a> with ease by winning 4-0, <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> were able to extend their aggregate lead to 7-5 and advance past <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> and <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> showed no mercy against <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> as they won 4-1 on the night and 10-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy all the updates from Wednesday&#8217;s matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 18, 2026, 05:56 PM ET THE CHAMPIONS! We had some more matches in the UEFA Champions League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-531854","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\/531854","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=531854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}