{"id":16076,"date":"2020-08-08T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T07:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16076"},"modified":"2020-08-08T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T07:05:38","slug":"real-madrid-juventus-eliminated-from-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16076","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid, Juventus eliminated from Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European football giants Real Madrid and Juventus were eliminated Friday from the UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid was beaten 2-1 by Manchester City in the second leg of the Round of 16 in England.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish club previously lost the first leg 2-1 in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Raheem Sterling gave the lead to Manchester City in the ninth minute with a simple close range goal.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid pulled level in the 28th minute as French star Karim Benzema scored on a header.<\/p>\n<p>In the 68th minute, Brazilian forward Gabriel Jesus scored the winning goal for Man City.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus took advantage of a mistake by French defender Raphael Varane.<\/p>\n<p>Varane made a careless header pass to goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois but Jesus intercepted the ball and placed it into the Real Madrid net.<\/p>\n<p>Man City won 4-2 on aggregate to book a spot in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juventus exit despite home win<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Juventus beat French opponents Olympique Lyon 2-1 but was eliminated from the Champions League because of an away goal rule.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon won the first leg 1-0 to have the advantage for the second leg in Turin.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals against Lyon but the Italians failed to reach the last eight in the tournament because of Dutch star Memphis Depay&#8217;s early opener for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The French grabbed a ticket to the next stage with a 2-2 aggregate score as an away goal netted by Depay was enough to advance to the last eight.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the match Juventus&#8217; Argentine star Paulo Dybala had to leave the pitch in pain.<\/p>\n<p>He has been battling a thigh injury but played in the match.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon will face Manchester City in the quarterfinal phase.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time since 2010 that Lyon will play in the Champions League quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA European football giants Real Madrid and Juventus were eliminated Friday from the UEFA Champions League. Real Madrid was beaten 2-1 by Manchester City in the second leg of the Round of 16 in England. The Spanish club previously lost the first leg 2-1 in Madrid. Forward Raheem Sterling gave the lead to Manchester City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16078,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16076\/revisions\/16078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}