{"id":48660,"date":"2026-04-15T01:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=48660"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:01:13","slug":"atletico-madrid-vs-barcelona-champions-league-qf-2026-atletico-madrid-leads-3-2-on-aggregate-over-barcelona-at-halftime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/champions-league\/atletico-madrid-vs-barcelona-champions-league-qf-2026-atletico-madrid-leads-3-2-on-aggregate-over-barcelona-at-halftime\/","title":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico Madrid vs Barcelona Champions League QF 2026: Atl\u00e9tico Madrid leads 3-2 on aggregate over Barcelona at halftime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">Barcelona have produced a thrilling first-half fightback at the Metropolitano Stadium, taking a 2-1 lead on the night and trailing by just one goal on aggregate heading into the second half.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">Match Summary at Half-Time<\/h3>\n<ul dir=\"auto\">\n<li><strong>4\u2032 \u2013 Lamine Yamal<\/strong> (Barcelona) \u2013 0-1<\/li>\n<li><strong>24\u2032 \u2013 Ferran Torres<\/strong> (Barcelona) \u2013 0-2<\/li>\n<li><strong>31\u2032 \u2013 Ademola Lookman<\/strong> (Atletico Madrid) \u2013 1-2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Aggregate: Atletico Madrid 3 \u2013 2 Barcelona<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">How the Goals Unfolded<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Yamal strikes early again<\/strong>: Just like in previous reports, teenage sensation Lamine Yamal opened the scoring in the 4th minute after a defensive error involving Clement Lenglet. Yamal stayed composed to slot home and give Barcelona the perfect start.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Torres makes it 0-2<\/strong>: In the 24th minute, Dani Olmo delivered a brilliant through ball. Ferran Torres spun past Lenglet, controlled the ball skillfully, and fired a powerful left-footed shot past Juan Musso.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Lookman pulls one back<\/strong>: Atletico responded in the 31st minute as Ademola Lookman finished clinically (assisted by Marcos Llorente) to reduce the deficit and keep the home side in control of the aggregate score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have produced a thrilling first-half fightback at the Metropolitano Stadium, taking a 2-1 lead on the night and trailing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":48661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48660","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48664,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48660\/revisions\/48664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}