{"id":238489,"date":"2026-04-14T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/paris-saint-germain-beats-liverpool-at-anfield-to-reach-the-champions-league-semifinals\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:27:54","slug":"paris-saint-germain-beats-liverpool-at-anfield-to-reach-the-champions-league-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/paris-saint-germain-beats-liverpool-at-anfield-to-reach-the-champions-league-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Saint-Germain beats Liverpool at Anfield to reach the Champions League semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"capital-letter\">P<\/span>aris Saint-Germain advanced to the Champions League semifinals with a 2-0 win over Liverpool at Anfield on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ousmane Dembele&#8217;s two second-half goals sealed a 4-0 aggregate victory and kept PSG on course to defend European club soccer&#8217;s biggest prize.<\/p>\n<p>Dembele&#8217;s first goal killed off Liverpool&#8217;s fight as the Premier League club went in search of another famous Champions League comeback. The Ballon d&#8217;Or winner swept a low left-footed shot from the edge of the area past goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili to quieten the home crowd and ease PSG tension.<\/p>\n<p>His second came at the end of a sweeping move in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Dembele had been guilty of wasting chances in the first leg to effectively put the tie to bed and he failed to capitalize on two more first-half opportunities to put the French champion further ahead at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>But his opening goal was dispatched with precision &#8211; nestling in the bottom corner. His second was a clinical finish from close range.<\/p>\n<p>PSG is aiming to become only the second club to successfully defend the trophy in the Champions League era after Real Madrid won a hat trick of titles between 2016-18.<\/p>\n<p>PSG will play the winner of Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Also Tuesday, Atletico Madrid advanced to the semifinals after a 3-2 aggregate win over Barcelona.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/football\/champions-league\/2026\/04\/14\/69deb14946163f55488b45db.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain advanced to the Champions League semifinals with a 2-0 win over Liverpool at Anfield on Tuesday. Ousmane Dembele&#8217;s two second-half goals sealed a 4-0 aggregate victory and kept PSG on course to defend European club soccer&#8217;s biggest prize. Dembele&#8217;s first goal killed off Liverpool&#8217;s fight as the Premier League club went in search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6808],"tags":[1192,664,1181,431],"class_list":{"0":"post-238489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-champions-league-english","10":"tag-liverpool-english","11":"tag-psg-english"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}