{"id":482040,"date":"2024-04-17T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482040"},"modified":"2024-04-17T17:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T21:57:16","slug":"man-city-show-cooler-heads-to-eliminate-real-madrid-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-show-cooler-heads-to-eliminate-real-madrid-on-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid  show cooler heads to eliminate Man City on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid secured their place in the Champions League semi-finals by dethroning Manchester City in a thrilling encounter that ended 1-1 after regular time and extra time, ultimately decided by a penalty shootout. Real Madrid emerged victorious, triumphing 4-3 in the shootout at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The opening goal came in the 12th minute when Real Madrid executed a swift counterattack. Jude Bellingham received a precise pass, setting up Valverde, who then found Vinicius with a well-placed cross. Vinicius&#8217; shot was saved initially, but Rodrigo pounced on the rebound to give Real Madrid the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City came agonizingly close to equalizing in the 19th minute when Erling Haaland&#8217;s header rattled the crossbar, followed by Bernardo Silva&#8217;s missed attempt on the rebound.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts eventually found their breakthrough in the 76th minute. Jeremy Doku exploited space on the left flank, evading Bellingham&#8217;s challenge. Antonio Rudiger&#8217;s failed clearance fell kindly to Kevin De Bruyne, who made no mistake from close range, leveling the score for Manchester City.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"de\">R\u00fcdiger sends Real Madrid to the semi-finals! \ud83c\udfaf<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\/Vl20j70qV1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Vl20j70qV1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague\/status\/1780715858777808966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With neither team able to find a winner in regulation or extra time, the match was decided by a nerve-wracking penalty shootout. Real Madrid held their nerve, converting four of their penalties to secure their passage to the semi-finals, ending Manchester City&#8217;s hopes of retaining their Champions League crown as Bernardo Silva and Mateo Kovacic missed their shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid secured their place in the Champions League semi-finals by dethroning Manchester City in a thrilling encounter that ended 1-1 after regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":482041,"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":"Los Blancos reach the semifinals of the Champions League after two magnificent clashes ","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\/482040"}],"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=482040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482043,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482040\/revisions\/482043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482040"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482040"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}