{"id":509772,"date":"2026-03-11T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509772"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:03:13","slug":"valverdes-magic-lead-real-to-3-0-win-vs-man-city-at-bernabeu","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/valverdes-magic-lead-real-to-3-0-win-vs-man-city-at-bernabeu\/","title":{"rendered":"Valverde\u2019s magic lead Real to 3-0 win vs. Man City at Bernabeu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid defeated Manchester City 3-0 after Federico Valverde\u2019s 1st half hattrick, and Los Blancos secured a very important advantage before the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg in England in the tie from the playoffs in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The opening goal in the match came in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Thibaut Courtois, with a phenomenal assist, found Federico Valverde, and he scored. Only 7 minutes later, Valverde scored again, this time assisted by Vini Junior, but the most beautiful goal of all for his hat-trick came in the 42<sup>nd<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Brahim Diaz with a phenomenal cross found Valverde, who scored a very beautiful goal to make Los Blancos lead 3 goals and finish his hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, the Royal club had a golden chance to score again as they received a penalty for a foul against Vinicius Junior, and the Brazilian took the penalty himself, but his shot was saved by Donaruma.<\/p>\n<p>Until the end of the match, Man City didn\u2019t have a great chance to score, and now the Sky Blues must overcome a 3-goal deficit at the Emirates if they want to advance to the next phase of the UCL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc1 FP: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RealMadrid<\/a> 3-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCityES?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ManCityES<\/a><br \/>\u26bd 20&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fedeevalverde?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FedeeValverde<\/a><br \/>\u26bd 27&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fedeevalverde?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FedeeValverde<\/a><br \/>\u26bd 42&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fedeevalverde?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FedeeValverde<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FSWzgN5NY9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FSWzgN5NY9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadrid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid\/status\/2031851085015478766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid defeated Manchester City 3-0 after Federico Valverde\u2019s 1st half hattrick, and Los Blancos secured a very important advantage before the 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509774,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,17375],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18121,25864],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Fede with his 1st hattrick in his career led Los Blancos to the triumph.","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\/509772"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509777,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509772\/revisions\/509777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509772"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509772"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}