{"id":13751,"date":"2024-04-17T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T02:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=431294"},"modified":"2024-04-17T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T02:53:41","slug":"xavi-blames-referee-for-ucl-quarter-finals-loss-against-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/xavi-blames-referee-for-ucl-quarter-finals-loss-against-psg\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavi blames referee for UCL quarter-finals loss against PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are out of the UEFA Champions League after they got stunned by the away side PSG in the second leg. Despite having a decent advantage of 3-2 over them in the first leg, Barcelona couldn\u2019t capitalise on it and lost 4-1 in the second. The game started and Barca scored in just the 12th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona gave away their lead in the second half after Araujo recieved a red card. Following the penalty awarded to PSG, manager Xavi also got a red card and he was out of the game for his unethical behaviour on the pitch. Xavi has blamed referee for this loss after the game as he said,\u201di told the referee that he was a disaster. It\u2019s shame to be out of the champions league due to a referee\u2019s mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona\u2019s UEFA Champions League journey came to a shocking halt as they were ousted by a determined PSG side in the second leg of their encounter. Despite holding a promising 3-2 lead from the first leg, Barcelona fall under the lights of their home stadium, losing 4-1 to the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The match was in hands of Catalan giants as they found the net in the 12th minute, expected to secure their place in the next round. However, the game turned against them when defender Araujo received a red card, diminishing Barcelona\u2019s defensive strength.<\/p>\n<p>The moment arrived when PSG was awarded a penalty, further adding to Barcelona\u2019s woes. Barcelona\u2019s manager, Xavi, was also shown a red card for his conduct on the touchline, leaving his team to battle on without his guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are out of the UEFA Champions League after they got stunned by the away side PSG in the second leg. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":34553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[661,449,447,178,48,280],"class_list":["post-13751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barcelona","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-psg","tag-uefa","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-xavi"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}