{"id":32109,"date":"2026-04-16T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32109"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:04:51","slug":"final-four-locked-in-for-uefa-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/final-four-locked-in-for-uefa-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Final four locked in for UEFA Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The four semi-final teams for this season&#8217;s Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League are now confirmed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bayern Munich and Arsenal have joined Paris Saint German and Atletico Madrid after the conclusion of the second-leg, quarterfinal ties.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Arsenal will compete in the semi-finals of the tournament for the second straight year, the first time in the English club&#8217;s history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the first minute of the game, Arda Guler pounced on a terrible mistake by Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer to bring Real Madrid back into the game.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But that was short lived, as Bayern&#8217;s Aleksandar Pavlovic&#8217;s header levelled matters in the 29th minute.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, the game went into half time with Real Madrid leading 3-2.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Luis Diaz and Michael Olise scored late goals to give the hosts a dramatic 4-3 win over the Spaniards, and a 6-4 aggregate victory.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22693,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-32109","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Four semi-final teams for UEFA Champions League confirmed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32109","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\/32109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32110,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32109\/revisions\/32110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}