{"id":1068200,"date":"2022-04-27T06:26:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T06:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/man-city-beat-real-madrid-in-astonishing-first-leg-tie\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T06:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T06:26:15","slug":"man-city-beat-real-madrid-in-astonishing-first-leg-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/man-city-beat-real-madrid-in-astonishing-first-leg-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City Beat Real Madrid In Astonishing First-leg Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester City remain on course to reach a second successive Champions League final after beating Real Madrid in a thrilling semi-final first leg.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin de Bruyne\u2019s diving header and Gabriel Jesus\u2019 calm finish gave City a 2-0 lead inside the opening 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Karim Benzema volleyed home for Real, but Phil Foden\u2019s header made it 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Real\u2019s Vinicius Jr scored an individual goal, Bernardo Silva blasted in City\u2019s fourth before Benzema\u2019s chipped penalty following Aymeric Laporte\u2019s handball.<\/p>\n<p>City have never won the European Cup or Champions League and lost 1-0 to Chelsea in last season\u2019s final, but produced a superb performance to take an advantage to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>However, manager Pep Guardiola will be annoyed they did not secure a wider winning margin after leading 2-0, 3-1 and 4-2, but Benzema\u2019s incredible \u2018Panenka\u2019 penalty gave the Spanish league leaders hope of turning the tie around at the Bernabeu on Wednesday, 4 May.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool face Spanish side Villarreal in this year\u2019s other semi-final, with the first leg at Anfield on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The final will be held at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday, 28 May.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City remain on course to reach a second successive Champions League final after beating Real Madrid in a thrilling semi-final first leg. Kevin de Bruyne\u2019s diving header and Gabriel Jesus\u2019 calm finish gave City a 2-0 lead inside the opening 11 minutes. Karim Benzema volleyed home for Real, but Phil Foden\u2019s header made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10350,193,1761,7200,554,697,555,1403],"class_list":["post-1068200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-astonishing","tag-beat","tag-city","tag-firstleg","tag-madrid","tag-man","tag-real","tag-tie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068200","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=1068200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}