Atl\u00e9tico Madrid Hold Advantage Despite First-Leg Win as Barcelona Eye Comeback; Two Players Suspended for Second Leg<\/p>\n
Atl\u00e9tico Madrid secured a 2\u20130 victory over Barcelona in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final at Camp Nou on Wednesday, but the tie remains far from decided with a decisive second leg still to be played.<\/p>\n
The return fixture, scheduled for next Tuesday at the Metropolitano Stadium, will determine which side advances to the semi-finals, with Atl\u00e9tico currently holding the upper hand.<\/p>\n
Despite the deficit, Barcelona are not expected to back down, as the Catalan side will look to mount a comeback and fight for qualification in Madrid.<\/p>\n
However, both teams have been dealt setbacks ahead of the second leg, with two players confirmed to miss the match due to suspension.<\/p>\n
Barcelona will be without defender Pau Cubars\u00ed, who received a straight red card in the first leg following a challenge on Giovanni Simeone.<\/p>\n
Atl\u00e9tico Madrid will also be missing defender Marc Pubill, who picked up his third yellow card of the competition after fouling Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n
The second leg will take place on April 14 at the Metropolitano Stadium, where Barcelona will need to win by more than two goals to secure a place in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Atl\u00e9tico Madrid Hold Advantage Despite First-Leg Win as Barcelona Eye Comeback; Two Players Suspended for Second Leg Atl\u00e9tico Madrid secured a 2\u20130 victory over Barcelona in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final at Camp Nou on Wednesday, but the tie remains far from decided with a decisive second leg still to be …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}