{"id":77864,"date":"2018-04-11T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/roma-beats-barcelona-3-0-in-champions-league-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:40:44","slug":"roma-beats-barcelona-3-0-in-champions-league-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/roma-beats-barcelona-3-0-in-champions-league-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Roma beats Barcelona 3-0 in Champions League quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"350\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/4- Apr\/11\/rum and barsulna (1).jpg\" width=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">KABUL (SW): Roma pulled off an extraordinary comeback to knock Barcelona out of the Champions League on Tuesday, winning 3-0 at home to reach the semi-finals by overturning a three-goal deficit from the first leg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Edin Dzeko controlled an over-the-top pass between two defenders after six minutes and poked in his sixth goal in this season&#39;s competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Roma entered the game as massive underdogs after losing the first leg of their quarter-final 4-1 against a Lionel Messi-led team that was one of the big favorites to win the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">But they advanced on away goals after center back Kostas Manolas scored the decider with a header from a corner in the 82nd minute amid a deafening atmosphere inside the Stadio Olimpico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Then near the hour mark, Dzeko earned a penalty that Daniele De Rossi converted to set the stage for Manolas&#39; late header.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">It&#39;s the first time that Roma has reached the last four since it lost the 1984 final to Liverpool on penalties in its own stadium &#8211; and it&#39;s the third straight year that Barcelona has been eliminated at this stage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roma pulled off an extraordinary comeback to knock Barcelona out of the Champions League on Tuesday, winning 3-0 at home to reach the semi-finals by overturning a three-goal deficit from the first leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}