{"id":489630,"date":"2025-03-04T18:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489630"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:13:40","slug":"real-madrid-edges-atletico-2-1-in-first-champions-league-clash","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/real-madrid-edges-atletico-2-1-in-first-champions-league-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid edges Atletico 2-1 in first Champions League clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"358\">Real Madrid claimed a narrow 2-1 victory over city rivals Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 clash at the Santiago Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"358\">Despite taking an early lead, Los Blancos faced stiff resistance from the visitors, setting the stage for a dramatic second leg.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"360\" data-end=\"638\">The hosts struck first in the 4th minute when Federico Valverde delivered a perfectly weighted pass behind the defense to Rodrygo. The Brazilian outpaced Javier Galan, weaved past Clement Lenglet, and slotted a precise shot past Jan Oblak into the right corner to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"890\">Atletico responded in the 32nd minute through Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez. The Argentine forward skillfully outmaneuvered Eduardo Camavinga at the edge of the box before unleashing a powerful diagonal strike into Thibaut Courtois&#8217; left corner for the equalizer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"1127\">Real reclaimed the lead in the 55th minute when Brahim Diaz showcased his technical brilliance inside the penalty area, deceiving Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Jim\u00e9nez before burying a clinical finish into the bottom left corner of Oblak\u2019s net for 2-1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">\ud83c\udfaf <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brahim?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Brahim<\/a> \ud83c\udfaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tEEkUvoHGq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tEEkUvoHGq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadrid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid\/status\/1897036884322476207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1427\">Atletico pushed for another equalizer and nearly found it in the 60th minute. Antoine Griezmann surged past Camavinga and Mendy, firing a fierce shot that Courtois expertly parried away. Moments later, Jim\u00e9nez had a dangerous opportunity from a set-piece, but his header sailed over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1429\" data-end=\"1605\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">With a slender lead heading into the second leg, Real Madrid will look to finish the job, while Atletico remains firmly in contention for a comeback at the Wanda Metropolitano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid claimed a narrow 2-1 victory over city rivals Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":489631,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18986,18072,17375],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18987,18073,327],"acf":{"announce":"Brahim Diaz got Los Blancos a slight advantage going into the second leg next week","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\/489630"}],"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=489630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489634,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489630\/revisions\/489634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489630"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489630"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}