{"id":11515,"date":"2022-04-14T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=213593"},"modified":"2022-04-14T15:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:46:36","slug":"benfica-forward-darwin-nunez-has-scored-6-goals-in-10-champions-league-outings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/benfica-forward-darwin-nunez-has-scored-6-goals-in-10-champions-league-outings\/","title":{"rendered":"Benfica forward Darwin Nunez has scored 6 goals in 10 Champions League outings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The brilliance of Benfica forward Darwin Nunez will now have the club\u2019s officials wringing their hands collectively, as their main player must have increased millions to his purchase price after netting six goals in 10 Champions League matches this year. Nunez has already scored 31 goals this season, particularly the goal that eliminated Erik ten Hag\u2019s Ajax from the Champions League.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nunez might only have struck once, but he hit the ball in the net 3x, showcasing his explosive clinical capability. Regretfully, in either case, he was slightly advanced in the play, forcing the assistant referee\u2019s whistle to be displayed. Another magnificent drive from the edges of the area pushed Alisson to execute a terrific low save.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nunez, who is currently exhibiting his prowess in the Champions League\u2019s knockout stages, did not pursue the traditional path to this stage.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">After moving up the ranks with Penarol in his homeland, he penned a five agreement with Spanish second-tier team, Almeria, in 2018, garnering \u00a33.4 million for his hometown club.\u00a0<\/span>Nunez established an instantaneous influence in Spain, netting 16 goals in a season that prompted Benfica to invest \u00a320 million in him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After two dramatic encounters, Liverpool came out ahead 6-4 on aggregate versus Benfica in the quarter-finals.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Liverpool will next meet Unai Emery\u2019s Villarreal in the semi-final, who stunned Bayern Munich by prevailing 2-1 on aggregate after a late draw at the Allianz Arena on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span>Manchester City will confront Real Madrid in the other semi-final after both squads weathered bruising quarter-final encounters versus Atletico Madrid & Chelsea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benfica forward is in-demand with many big clubs eyeing him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2637,410,569,221,2521,2549,3276,3271,2604,2478,48,2456],"class_list":["post-11515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-alisson","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-bayern-munchen","tag-bayern-munich","tag-benfica","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-darwin-nunez","tag-fc-bayern","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-real-madrid-cf","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-villareal"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515","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\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}