{"id":992622,"date":"2022-02-16T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/ucl-round-16-day-1-wrap-mbappe-gives-psg-the-edge-over-madrid-man-city-trash-sporting-lisbon\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:06:13","slug":"ucl-round-16-day-1-wrap-mbappe-gives-psg-the-edge-over-madrid-man-city-trash-sporting-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/ucl-round-16-day-1-wrap-mbappe-gives-psg-the-edge-over-madrid-man-city-trash-sporting-lisbon\/","title":{"rendered":"UCL Round 16 Day 1 Wrap: Mbappe Gives PSG The Edge Over Madrid; Man City Trash Sporting Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kylian Mbappe scored a brilliant goal in stoppage time as Paris St-Germain beat 13-time Champions League winners Real Madrid in the first leg of their last-16 tie.<\/p>\n

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The France striker, linked with a move to Real in the summer, received the ball on the left from a clever backheel by Neymar, and got between two defenders inside the box before slotting through Thibaut Courtois\u2019 legs to send the Parc des Princes wild.<\/p>\n

It was a dramatic finish to a game that had looked set to end in frustration for PSG, especially after Lionel Messi saw his penalty saved just after the hour mark.<\/p>\n

The hosts had dominated possession but struggled to break down a well-organised Real defence that had limited PSG to one shot on target in the first half, when Mbappe saw a shot denied by Courtois\u2019 legs.<\/p>\n

But the introduction of Neymar, making his first appearance since November after recovering from injury, proved decisive. He caused Real a number of problems with his dangerous crosses and clever runs before proving the crucial pass for Mbappe to work his magic with seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

The win will give PSG hope that they can head to Madrid on Wednesday, 9 March and get the result they need to keep alive their hopes of winning a first Champions League title.<\/p>\n

Manchester City effectively sealed their progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a stunning last-16, first-leg demolition of Sporting Lisbon in Portugal.<\/p>\n

As they have done for much of this season, City put on a majestic display to give themselves a surely unassailable advantage in a tie against what had been a buoyant and reinvigorated Portuguese champions.<\/p>\n

Bernardo Silva was brilliant, silencing the boos that greeted every touch from him and City\u2019s three other former Benfica players with his side\u2019s second and fourth goals, the first a glorious half-volley following a corner.<\/p>\n

In-form Riyad Mahrez was on the scoresheet again with a close-range finish awarded via VAR after a lengthy delay to assess if Kevin de Bruyne had strayed offside in the build-up as originally ruled.<\/p>\n

Phil Foden also added to his growing collection of cool, calm finishes in a relentless first half that shattered Sporting.<\/p>\n

There was no let-up after the break, with Silva seeing a hat-trick headed goal ruled out for offside before he set up Raheem Sterling to curl in a lovely fifth.<\/p>\n

Sporting will travel to Manchester for the formality of the second leg on Wednesday 9 March.<\/p>\n

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Kylian Mbappe scored a brilliant goal in stoppage time as Paris St-Germain beat 13-time Champions League winners Real Madrid in the first leg of their last-16 tie. The France striker, linked with a move to Real in the summer, received the ball on the left from a clever backheel by Neymar, and got between two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1761,473,2098,5123,554,697,4155,5118,5120,847,5121,2845],"class_list":["post-992622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-city","tag-day","tag-edge","tag-lisbon","tag-madrid","tag-man","tag-mbappe","tag-psg","tag-sporting","tag-trash","tag-ucl","tag-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992622","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=992622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}