{"id":3617,"date":"2025-01-21T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2025-01-21T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:03:36","slug":"champions-league-round-up-liverpool-beat-lille-barcelona-win-5-4-and-aston-villa-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/champions-league-round-up-liverpool-beat-lille-barcelona-win-5-4-and-aston-villa-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League round-up: Liverpool beat Lille, Barcelona win 5-4 and Aston Villa lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22408210 lazyload\" alt=\"Liverpool FC v LOSC Lille - UEFA Champions League 2024\/25 League Phase MD7\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2195156443.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Harvey Elliott and Mohamed Salah scored in Liverpool&#8217;s win over Lille (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Goals from Harvey Elliott and Mohamed Salah helped <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/liverpool-fc\/\">Liverpool<\/a> defeat French side Lille on a busy night in the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/champions-league\/\">Champions League<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Salah opened the scoring for the Reds before Lille were reduced to 10 men with A\u00efssa Mandi shown a second yellow card after the break.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having a player sent off, Lille pulled level via Jonathan David, only for substitute Elliott to grab the winner in front of a delighted home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The most exciting match took place over in Portugal as <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/fc-barcelona\/\">Barcelona<\/a> defeated Benfica in a nine-goal thriller thanks to a 96th-minue strike from Raphinha.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa, meanwhile, squandered their opportunity to all-but secure their place in the last 16 as Unai Emery&#8217;s side ended up losing 1-0 at <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/monaco\/\">Monaco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/borussia-dortmund\/\">Borussia Dortmund<\/a> lost 2-1 away at Bologna in a damaging result while <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/juventus\/\">Juventus<\/a>&#8217; clash at Club Brugge ended in a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Here&#8217;s how it all unfolded&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Elliott and Mohamed Salah scored in Liverpool&#8217;s win over Lille (Picture: Getty) Goals from Harvey Elliott and Mohamed Salah helped Liverpool defeat French side Lille on a busy night in the Champions League on Tuesday. Salah opened the scoring for the Reds before Lille were reduced to 10 men with A\u00efssa Mandi shown a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}