{"id":481712,"date":"2024-04-09T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481712"},"modified":"2024-04-09T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T21:00:45","slug":"six-goal-thriller-at-bernabeu-leaves-real-madrid-city-tie-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/six-goal-thriller-at-bernabeu-leaves-real-madrid-city-tie-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-goal thriller at Bernabeu leaves Real Madrid &#8211; City tie wide open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a thrilling encounter at the Bernabeu, Champions League holders Manchester City and Real Madrid played out a six-goal spectacle, leaving their quarter-final finely balanced after the first leg.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side took an early lead in the second minute when Bernardo Silva cleverly curled a 25-yard free-kick around the wall and past Andriy Lunin.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid, 14-time European Cup winners, drew level with two deflected strikes. Eduardo Camavinga&#8217;s long-range effort took a deflection off Ruben Dias before finding the back of Stefan Ortega&#8217;s net. Shortly after, Rodrygo capitalized on a defensive lapse from City and scored via Manuel Akanji&#8217;s heel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">\u2b50 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5J2pyu8iDd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5J2pyu8iDd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague\/status\/1777793273324503333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite City&#8217;s dominance in possession, they struggled to find a cutting edge until Phil Foden intervened. The England midfielder, relatively quiet until then, found space outside the area and unleashed a stunning strike into the top corner to bring City level.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, left-back Josko Gvardiol, cut inside and rifled a right-footed shot into the far corner to put City ahead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a match. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9I2jZgnQBX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9I2jZgnQBX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague\/status\/1777803555820179739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Real Madrid responded with a magnificent volley from Federico Valverde to equalize, setting up an enticing second leg at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday, April 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a thrilling encounter at the Bernabeu, Champions League holders Manchester City and Real Madrid played out a six-goal spectacle, leaving their quarter-final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":481713,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18072,17183,17375],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18073,18121,327],"acf":{"announce":"3-3 draw between the two sides in Spain before the return leg in a week time","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481714,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481712\/revisions\/481714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481712"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481712"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}