{"id":21119,"date":"2025-04-16T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21119"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:36:42","slug":"psg-and-barcelona-reach-champions-league-semi-finals-despite-second-leg-defeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/psg-and-barcelona-reach-champions-league-semi-finals-despite-second-leg-defeats\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG and Barcelona reach Champions League semi-finals despite second-leg defeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"\" data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"390\"><strong>Dourtmund, April 16:<\/strong> Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and FC Barcelona have booked their places in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, despite suffering defeats in the second leg of their respective quarter-final ties on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"734\">In a dramatic match at Signal Iduna Park, Barcelona were beaten 3-1 by Borussia Dortmund, but advanced with a 5-3 aggregate victory thanks to their dominant 4-0 win in the first leg. Dortmund\u2019s Serhou Guirassy was the star of the night, scoring a brilliant hat-trick to give the home side hope. Barcelona\u2019s only goal came through an own goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"736\" data-end=\"1148\">Guirassy opened the scoring in the 11th minute to give Dortmund an early lead. He doubled the advantage with his second goal in the 49th minute. However, a 54th-minute own goal by Dortmund&#8217;s Ramy Bensebaini shifted the momentum slightly in Barcelona\u2019s favor. Guirassy completed his hat-trick in the 76th minute, securing a 3-1 win for Dortmund on the night\u2014but it wasn\u2019t enough to overturn the first-leg deficit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1150\" data-end=\"1466\">Meanwhile, in another quarter-final second leg clash at Villa Park, Aston Villa edged PSG 3-2. Despite the victory, Villa were eliminated from the competition with a 5-4 aggregate loss. Youri Tielemans, John McGinn, and Ezri Konsa were on target for the home side, while Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes scored for PSG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1588\">PSG had previously secured a 3-1 win in the first leg, which proved decisive in sending them through to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dourtmund, April 16: Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and FC Barcelona have booked their places in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, despite suffering defeats in the second leg of their respective quarter-final ties on Tuesday night. In a dramatic match at Signal Iduna Park, Barcelona were beaten 3-1 by Borussia Dortmund, but advanced with a 5-3 aggregate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21121,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions\/21121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}