{"id":83058,"date":"2026-02-26T07:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83058"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:55:54","slug":"uefa-champions-league-madrid-psg-atalanta-newcastle-reach-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/26\/uefa-champions-league-madrid-psg-atalanta-newcastle-reach-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Champions League: Madrid, PSG, Atalanta, Newcastle Reach Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UEFA Champions League play-off round concluded on Wednesday, with several top clubs sealing places in the Round of 16 ahead of Friday\u2019s draw.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid defeated Club Brugge 4-1 to advance 7-4 on aggregate, while Bayer Leverkusen progressed 2-0 overall after a goalless draw with Olympiacos.<\/p>\n<p>Bod\u00f8\/Glimt stunned Inter Milan 2-1 away to seal a 5-2 aggregate win. Newcastle United thrashed Qaraba\u011f 3-2 for a 9-3 aggregate victory.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Atalanta BC came from behind to beat Borussia Dortmund 4-1 and advance 4-3 on aggregate. Real Madrid edged Benfica 2-1 to progress 3-1 overall, while defending champions Paris Saint-Germain drew 2-2 with Monaco to go through 5-4 on aggregate. Galatasaray also eliminated Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>The Round of 16 draw holds Friday, February 27, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The UEFA Champions League play-off round concluded on Wednesday, with several top clubs sealing places in the Round of 16 ahead of Friday\u2019s draw. On Tuesday, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid defeated Club Brugge 4-1 to advance 7-4 on aggregate, while Bayer Leverkusen progressed 2-0 overall after a goalless draw with Olympiacos. Bod\u00f8\/Glimt stunned Inter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83058","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=83058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83060,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83058\/revisions\/83060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}