{"id":45338,"date":"2026-04-04T20:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45338"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:27:05","slug":"haaland-hat-trick-fires-manchester-city-into-fa-cup-semi-finals-with-dominant-win-over-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/haaland-hat-trick-fires-manchester-city-into-fa-cup-semi-finals-with-dominant-win-over-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland hat-trick fires Manchester City into FA Cup semi-finals with dominant win over Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"399\"><strong>Agency, April 4:<\/strong>\u00a0Erling Braut Haaland delivered a sensational hat-trick as Manchester City stormed into the FA Cup semi-finals with a commanding 4-0 victory over Liverpool in Saturday\u2019s quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"401\" data-end=\"595\">Playing at the Etihad Stadium, City produced a ruthless performance to book their place in the final four, with Haaland scoring three times and Antoine Semenyo adding the other goal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"597\" data-end=\"868\">Haaland opened the scoring in the 39th minute, calmly converting from the penalty spot to hand City the lead. The Norwegian striker struck again in first-half stoppage time, finishing off a fine assist from Semenyo to double the hosts\u2019 advantage before the break.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"870\" data-end=\"1141\">City continued their dominance after halftime, with Semenyo making it 3-0 in the 50th minute to put Liverpool under even more pressure. Just seven minutes later, Haaland completed his hat-trick with his third goal of the evening, extending City\u2019s lead to 4-0.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1143\" data-end=\"1344\">Liverpool had a chance to pull one back in the 64th minute when they were awarded a penalty, but Mohamed Salah failed to convert, missing a crucial opportunity to spark any hopes of a comeback.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1346\" data-end=\"1468\">Neither side managed to add to the score in the remaining minutes, as City comfortably sealed a comprehensive 4-0 win.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1470\" data-end=\"1590\">With the victory, Manchester City advance to the FA Cup semi-finals, while Liverpool bow out of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, April 4:\u00a0Erling Braut Haaland delivered a sensational hat-trick as Manchester City stormed into the FA Cup semi-finals with a commanding 4-0 victory over Liverpool in Saturday\u2019s quarter-final clash. Playing at the Etihad Stadium, City produced a ruthless performance to book their place in the final four, with Haaland scoring three times and Antoine Semenyo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45338","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\/45338"}],"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=45338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45343,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45338\/revisions\/45343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}