{"id":11506,"date":"2022-04-13T03:03:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=213147"},"modified":"2022-04-13T03:06:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T21:36:45","slug":"real-madrid-knocks-chelsea-out-of-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/real-madrid-knocks-chelsea-out-of-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid knocks Chelsea out of Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrygo and Karim Benzema power Real Madrid to eliminate Chelsea 4-5 on aggregate in the quarterfinals to reach the last four of the UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">\u23e9 \u00a1A SEMIFINALES! \u23e9<br \/>\ud83c\udfc1 FP: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realmadrid<\/a> 2-3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC_Sp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChelseaFC_Sp<\/a> (Global 5-4)<br \/>\u26bd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RodrygoGoes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RodrygoGoes<\/a> 80', <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benzema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Benzema<\/a> 96'; Mount 15', R\u00fcdiger 51', Werner 75'<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Emirates?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Emirates<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ataz51GEA7\">pic.twitter.com\/ataz51GEA7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadrid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid\/status\/1513993691765084164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The game started with the Blues scoring the first goal where Mason Mount scored in the 15th minute of the game and the first half ended with 1-0 (3-2) on aggregate in the Santiago Bernabeu. In the second half, Chelsea took the lead again to level the aggregate score 3-3 where Rudiger netted in the 50th minute from his towering header from a corner after which Karim Benzema\u2019s header came off the bar at 66\u2032 before Timo Werner made it 3-4 in favour for the defending champions.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts were trailing 3-4 down after which Rodrygo to a beautiful Luka Modric assist struck at the 80th minute to level the game against the visitors on aggregate before the return leg went into extra time.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of extra time was owned by Karim Benzema to make it 4-5 for the 13-times European Champions at the 96th minute while the second part went goalless to end it for Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s team. France International Benzema had scored a brilliant hat trick at the Stanford Bridge to clinch an away win against the reigning UCL champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benzema scored a hat trick while Kai Harvetz netted one goal in the first leg for Real Madrid and Chelsea respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":33976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[177,312,266,2924,475,48],"class_list":["post-11506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-champions-league","tag-chelsea","tag-real-madrid","tag-rodrygo","tag-timo-werner","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","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\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}