{"id":21926,"date":"2025-05-01T07:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21926"},"modified":"2025-05-01T07:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:08:56","slug":"thriller-in-barcelona-six-goal-semi-final-sets-stage-for-explosive-second-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/thriller-in-barcelona-six-goal-semi-final-sets-stage-for-explosive-second-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Thriller in Barcelona: Six-goal semi-final sets stage for explosive second leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"\" data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"249\"><strong data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"95\">Agency, May 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Barcelona and Italian giants Inter Milan played out a thrilling 3-3 draw in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-final on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"251\" data-end=\"422\">The high-octane clash took place at Estadi Ol\u00edmpic Llu\u00eds Companys, where both sides delivered a dramatic encounter filled with goals, comebacks, and standout performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"691\">Inter made a blistering start as Marcus Thuram fired the visitors ahead inside the opening minute \u2013 the fastest goal ever scored in a Champions League semi-final. Denzel Dumfries doubled Inter\u2019s lead in the 21st minute, seemingly putting the Italians in firm control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"898\">But Barcelona responded swiftly. Just three minutes later, Lamine Yamal pulled one back with a superb solo effort, before Ferran Torres leveled the match in the 38th minute, finishing off a fine team move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"1210\">In the second half, Dumfries struck again in the 64th minute to restore Inter\u2019s lead with his second goal of the night. However, Barcelona were back on level terms just a minute later when Raphinha\u2019s powerful shot ricocheted off the post and deflected in off goalkeeper Yann Sommer for an unfortunate own goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1358\">Despite chances for both sides in the closing stages, neither team could find a winner, leaving the tie finely poised heading into the second leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1360\" data-end=\"1443\">The decisive return leg will be played on May 6, with everything still to play for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, May 1:\u00a0Barcelona and Italian giants Inter Milan played out a thrilling 3-3 draw in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-final on Wednesday night. The high-octane clash took place at Estadi Ol\u00edmpic Llu\u00eds Companys, where both sides delivered a dramatic encounter filled with goals, comebacks, and standout performances. Inter made a blistering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926"}],"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=21926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21928,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions\/21928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}