{"id":81975,"date":"2026-01-21T06:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81975"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:13:37","slug":"arsenal-cruise-madrid-run-riot-as-ucl-matchday-lights-up-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/21\/arsenal-cruise-madrid-run-riot-as-ucl-matchday-lights-up-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Cruise, Madrid Run Riot as UCL Matchday Lights Up Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UEFA Champions League action on Tuesday night delivered goals and surprises as top clubs battled for knockout places across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal boosted their qualification hopes with a confident 3-1 away win over Inter Milan at the San Siro, scoring twice before halftime and sealing victory late on.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid were ruthless at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, hammering AS Monaco 6-1. Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior starred as the Spanish giants underlined their title credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The night\u2019s biggest upset came in Norway, where Bod\u00f8\/Glimt shocked Manchester City 3-1, dealing Pep Guardiola\u2019s side a damaging defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Tottenham Hotspur beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0, Sporting CP edged Paris Saint-Germain 2-1, Olympiacos defeated Bayer Leverkusen 2-0, while Napoli were held to a 1-1 draw by Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>With one round of group matches remaining, the race for the knockout stage is intensifying as favourites and surprise contenders jostle for position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola UEFA Champions League action on Tuesday night delivered goals and surprises as top clubs battled for knockout places across Europe. Arsenal boosted their qualification hopes with a confident 3-1 away win over Inter Milan at the San Siro, scoring twice before halftime and sealing victory late on. Real Madrid were ruthless at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81977,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81975\/revisions\/81977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}