{"id":1054810,"date":"2022-04-13T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/13\/real-madrid-knock-chelsea-out-of-the-champions-league-in-an-agonising-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T10:42:01","slug":"real-madrid-knock-chelsea-out-of-the-champions-league-in-an-agonising-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/13\/real-madrid-knock-chelsea-out-of-the-champions-league-in-an-agonising-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid Knock Chelsea Out Of The Champions League In An Agonising Quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chelsea\u2019s reign as European champions came to an agonising end despite beating Real Madrid on a night of high drama at the Bernabeu Stadium.<\/p>\n

In a Champions League epic, Mason Mount\u2019s wonderful finish and Antonio Rudiger\u2019s powerful header wiped out Real\u2019s 3-1 first-leg advantage and brought the quarter-final tie level in Spain\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side were outstanding throughout and Timo Werner\u2019s clever finish from an angle put them ahead for the first time on aggregate and within sight of a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

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But substitute Rodrygo forced extra time with a volleyed finish before Karim Benzema, hat-trick hero in the first leg at Stamford Bridge six days ago, headed the decisive goal in the 96th minute to send Real through 5-4 on aggregate.<\/p>\n

Benzema, who had earlier headed against the bar on a rollercoaster night, was unmarked when he scored to break Chelsea\u2019s hearts after Rudiger slipped inside the box.<\/p>\n

In the end Chelsea, who played superbly, were made to pay for their first-leg performance as Tuchel\u2019s side just fell short of producing one of the great comebacks in the competition.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea\u2019s reign as European champions came to an agonising end despite beating Real Madrid on a night of high drama at the Bernabeu Stadium. In a Champions League epic, Mason Mount\u2019s wonderful finish and Antonio Rudiger\u2019s powerful header wiped out Real\u2019s 3-1 first-leg advantage and brought the quarter-final tie level in Spain\u2019s capital. Thomas Tuchel\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7435,774,58,2957,674,554,3067,555],"class_list":["post-1054810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-agonising","tag-champions","tag-chelsea","tag-knock","tag-league","tag-madrid","tag-quarterfinal","tag-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}