{"id":30978,"date":"2026-04-07T10:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30978"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:32:54","slug":"uefa-champions-league-quarter-final-stage-opens","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uefa-champions-league-quarter-final-stage-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Champions League quarter-final stage opens\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League quarter-final stage opens with one of European football&#8217;s defining rivalries tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Real Madrid will host Bundesliga log leaders, Bayern Munich at the Bernabeu in Spain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">At the weekend, the Bavarians&#8217; top goal scorer, Harry Kane, missed his side&#8217;s clash against Freiburg through injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The six-time UEFA champions, Bayern Munich are nine points clear at the top of the Bundesliga table.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They finished second in the Champions&#8217; League group stage, after suffering just one defeat against Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">And now that they have reached the business end of the tournament, there&#8217;s no room for mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Although there was concern over Kane&#8217;s availability, he took part in Monday&#8217;s training session.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern have yet to confirm whether he&#8217;ll be available to rejoin the starting lineup in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">But coach Vincent Kompany is optimistic ahead of their match against the 15-time UEFA champions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23831,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-30978","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"UEFA Champions League","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30979,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30978\/revisions\/30979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}