{"id":10244,"date":"2021-03-17T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=99138"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:49:10","slug":"champions-league-real-madrid-beats-atlanta-an-qualifies-for-quarterfinals-who-could-they-face-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/champions-league-real-madrid-beats-atlanta-an-qualifies-for-quarterfinals-who-could-they-face-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Real Madrid beats Atlanta an qualifies for quarterfinals, Who could they face next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid defeated Atlanta by\u00a0 3-1 on Tuesday, 16th March and advanced to quarterfinals, after two consecutive eliminations, with Karim Benzema leading the way to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid took advantage of Atlanta\u2019s costly goalkeeping change to make it back to the Champions League quarterfinals. Captain Sergio Ramos and Marco Asensio sealed Madrid\u2019s victory by scoring a goal each in the second half. Atlanta\u2019s one goal came from a free kick converted by Luis Muriel late in the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26aa\ufe0f Real Madrid back in the quarter-finals \ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g6eeEjibo5\">pic.twitter.com\/g6eeEjibo5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague\/status\/1371945841284558852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ramos played just over an hour in his second appearance since recovering from a knee injury while Benzema\u2019s goal was his eighth in as many games and 70th in the Champions League, making him only the fifth player to achieve this milestone. He signaled towards the bench that his work was done and he departed shortly after. Before that Benzema headed Lucas Vazquez\u2019s cross at Marco Sportiello which got rebound against the post.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid\u2019s tie with Chelsea is a little closer match to look upon, though Olivier Giroud\u2019s away goal in the first leg means the Londoners are the favorites to progress ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The first legs of the quarter finals will be played on 6th and 7th April, while the second legs will take place a week later on 13th and 14th April respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Only Manchester City and PSG have reached the last eight seasons. Bayern and Atletico too could join them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid defeated Atlanta by\u00a0 3-1 on Tuesday, 16th March and advanced to quarterfinals, after two consecutive eliminations, with Karim\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":32752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1595,1596,266,938,490,48],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-atlanta","tag-benzema","tag-real-madrid","tag-soccer","tag-ucl","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}