{"id":5505,"date":"2026-03-17T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/vinicius-jr-scores-twice-as-real-madrid-knock-man-city-out-of-ucl-last-16\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:36:34","slug":"vinicius-jr-scores-twice-as-real-madrid-knock-man-city-out-of-ucl-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/vinicius-jr-scores-twice-as-real-madrid-knock-man-city-out-of-ucl-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinicius Jr scores twice as Real Madrid knock Man City out of UCL last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Real Madrid has dumped 10-man Manchester City out of the Champions League for the fourth time in five seasons, as a 2-1 victory at Etihad Stadium completed a 5-1 aggregate victory<\/a> for the Spanish giants.<\/p>\n

City had to make history in overturning a 3-0 first-leg deficit against the 15-time European champions, but a difficult task became an impossible one on Tuesday when captain Bernardo Silva was shown an early red card for handling the ball on his own line.<\/p>\n

Vinicius Junior converted from the spot to kill the tie as a contest as City exited to Madrid for the third consecutive year.<\/p>\n

Erling Haaland levelled for City before half-time, but Vinicius won the game with virtually the final kick of the ball.<\/p>\n

Once again, City\u2019s quest for Champions League glory came unstuck as Madrid proved they have the knack for finding their best come the knockout stages of this competition, despite an unconvincing form in La Liga.<\/p>\n

Alvaro Arbeloa could afford to leave Kylian Mbappe on the bench on his return from injury, while Jude Bellingham could also be back fit by the time they face a likely quarterfinal against Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n

City needed a fast start to have any chance of becoming the first side to ever overturn a three-goal deficit against Madrid in European competition, but nearly found themselves further behind inside a minute.<\/p>\n

Federico Valverde was the unlikely Real hero last week with the first hat-trick of his career.<\/p>\n

The Uruguayan had an easier chance than for any of his three goals at the Santiago Bernabeu seven days ago, but fired meekly into the arms of Gianluigi Donnarumma after his run from midfield went untracked.<\/p>\n

City did briefly threaten to bring the tie to life, but came up against a familiar foe in Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n

The giant Belgian goalkeeper repelled efforts from Rayan Cherki and Rodri before Madrid\u2019s threat on the counterattack killed off any lingering City hopes.<\/p>\n

Vinicius had initially been flagged offside in the build-up, before his effort was turned wide by Silva\u2019s left arm.<\/p>\n

But a VAR review established that the Brazilian was onside, and left referee Clement Turpin with little choice but to dismiss the City captain and point to the penalty spot.<\/p>\n

Donnarumma saved a Vinicius penalty in the first leg, but this time, he was sent the wrong way from the spot.<\/p>\n

Vinicius should have added plenty more to his 15 goals this season as City pushed forward and left themselves exposed at the back.<\/p>\n

Twice, he fired off target with just Donnarumma to beat before half-time.<\/p>\n

Haaland now has 43 for club and country, but had netted just twice from open play in his previous 18 games.<\/p>\n

Even when the Norwegian did equalise, it came from a mishit as he scuffed a shot past Courtois from Jeremy Doku\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n

Courtois failed to reappear for the second half, but his deputy, Andriy Lunin, twice denied Haaland a double.<\/p>\n

Both sides had two goals ruled out for offside before Vinicius finally had one count when he swept home Aurelien Tchouameni\u2019s cross deep into stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Arbeloa said the likely quarterfinal against Bayern Munich would be very tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are improving, and we know if we want to have a chance to win against Bayern Munich, we have to be a team and work all together and be really narrow and compact and show a lot of commitment,\u201d he told Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, Bayern Munich will be really difficult\u201d.<\/p>\n

City\u2019s Jeremy Doku said the defeat was difficult to take.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a hard reality, but I feel like when you look at the games, it doesn\u2019t feel like they were much better than us. When you look at the score, it feels like it is obvious, but that is not the case,\u201d he told Amazon.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on Tuesday, Paris Saint-Germain snuffed out any chance of a Chelsea comeback, with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia among the scorers, in a clinical 3-0 victory at Stamford Bridge, which took the holders through to the Champions League quarterfinals 8-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n

The Georgian\u2019s early opener was soon followed by a brilliant Bradley Barcola strike, quickly ending Chelsea\u2019s hopes of turning around their 5-2 deficit from the first leg of the last-16 tie last week.<\/p>\n

Substitute Senny Mayulu then fired in PSG\u2019s third in the second half, as Luis Enrique\u2019s men march on to a last-eight tie next month against either Liverpool or Galatasaray<\/a>. The Turkish side go to Anfield with a 1-0 first-leg advantage on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Arsenal\u2019s Eberechi Eze \u2060opened his \u2060Champions League account with a stunning goal, as his side outclassed Bundesliga \u2060side Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 at home to reach the quarterfinals with a \u20603-1 aggregate victory on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Leverkusen somehow weathered a barrage of Arsenal pressure in the opening half an hour, with keeper \u200cJanis Blaswich outstanding, until Eze\u2019s screamer from outside the area in the 37th minute put them in control of an awkward last-16 tie.<\/p>\n

The tireless Declan Rice made it 2-0 just past \u2060the hour mark with \u2060a precise low finish, and Leverkusen, who ended Arsenal\u2019s 100 percent record in this season\u2019s competition when they \u2060had the better of a 1-1 draw in \u2060last week\u2019s first leg, never \u2060really threatened a comeback.<\/p>\n

Premier League leaders Arsenal will face Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon, who triumphed 5-0 in extra time over the season\u2019s surprise side Bod\/Glimt, who had won the first game 3-0 in Norway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid has dumped 10-man Manchester City out of the Champions League for the fourth time in five seasons, as a 2-1 victory at Etihad Stadium completed a 5-1 aggregate victory for the Spanish giants. City had to make history in overturning a 3-0 first-leg deficit against the 15-time European champions, but a difficult task … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}