{"id":492366,"date":"2025-04-09T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492366"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:13:02","slug":"barcelona-crush-dortmund-4-0-in-1-4-final-first-leg-eye-champions-league-semis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/barcelona-crush-dortmund-4-0-in-1-4-final-first-leg-eye-champions-league-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona crush Dortmund 4-0 in 1\/4-final first leg, eye Champions League semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona sent a powerful message to the rest of Europe with a dominant 4-0 demolition of Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final at the Estadi Ol\u00edmpic Llu\u00eds Companys. The Catalan giants were relentless from start to finish, effectively sealing the tie with a breathtaking all-around performance.<\/p>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a opened the scoring in the 25th minute through a well-executed set piece. Fermin Lopez whipped in a free kick, Inigo Martinez nodded it back across goal, and after Pau Cubars\u00ed\u2019s attempt was blocked, Raphinha tapped it in from close range to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Blaugrana ballet! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UIGrrb752e\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UIGrrb752e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1910073720753766744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dortmund had a golden opportunity to respond in the 36th minute, but Serhou Guirassy failed to make contact cleanly when one-on-one with Szczesny \u2014 a miss that proved costly.<\/p>\n<p>Only three minutes after the break, Bar\u00e7a struck again. A brilliant sequence saw Fermin Lopez find Lamine Yamal, whose deep cross was headed across goal by Raphinha into the path of Robert Lewandowski, who couldn\u2019t miss. 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona continued to attack. In the 63rd minute, Fermin Lopez hit the post after a quick counterattack led by Pedri.<\/p>\n<p>The third goal came in the 72nd minute. Lewandowski scored his second of the night with a calm finish after another assist from Raphinha. Five minutes later, Lewandowski passed to Raphinha, who played a perfect through ball to Lamine Yamal. The young winger stayed composed and scored with a low shot to make it 4-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona sent a powerful message to the rest of Europe with a dominant 4-0 demolition of Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492367,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,16803,18072],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17560,18546,18073],"acf":{"announce":"Raphina, Lamine Yamal and Lewandowski shine once again, contributing for all four goals ","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\/492366"}],"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=492366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492368,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492366\/revisions\/492368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492366"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492366"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}