{"id":48824,"date":"2026-04-16T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=48824"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:52:46","slug":"why-bellingham-said-its-a-joke-following-disappointing-ucl-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/champions-league\/why-bellingham-said-its-a-joke-following-disappointing-ucl-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bellingham said, \u201cIt\u2019s a Joke,\u201d following disappointing UCL exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League after a dramatic 6-4 aggregate defeat to Bayern Munich, but the main talking point after the match was not just the result.<\/p>\n<p>It was the red card shown to Eduardo Camavinga late in the second leg that triggered strong reactions across the Madrid camp.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder was sent off in the closing stages after receiving a second yellow card for time-wasting. The decision proved decisive as Bayern scored twice in the final minutes to seal qualification.<\/p>\n<p>After the final whistle, emotions were high. Jude Bellingham did not hold back when speaking briefly to reporters, calling the decision \u201ca joke\u201d as he walked past the media.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Antonio R\u00fcdiger chose a different approach. The German centre-back refused to comment on the incident, indicating his frustration but avoiding further controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes after full-time reflected the frustration inside the Madrid squad. Players argued, protests followed, and tensions spilled onto the pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League after a dramatic 6-4 aggregate defeat to Bayern Munich, but\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":48825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4652],"tags":[4517,3694,221,3686,1823,3467,2109,266,490,3794,48],"class_list":["post-48824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","tag-alvaro-arbeloa","tag-arda-guler","tag-bayern-munich","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-jude-bellingham","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-ucl","tag-ucl-quarter-finals","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48824","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=48824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48826,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48824\/revisions\/48826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}