{"id":58808,"date":"2017-05-04T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T10:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58808"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T09:22:14","slug":"gonzalo-higuain-brace-gives-juve-victory-in-ucl-semi-final-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gonzalo-higuain-brace-gives-juve-victory-in-ucl-semi-final-first-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzalo Higuain Brace Gives Juve Victory in UCL Semi-final First Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Juventus defeated Monaco 2-0 in the first leg of a UEFA Champions League semi-final matchup at Stade Louis II on Wednesday evening.<\/h2>\n<p>Juventus&#8217; goals came from clinical Argentinian striker Gonzalo Higuain, both assisted by Brazilian left-back Dani Alves.<\/p>\n<p>Higuain&#8217;s shot in 28&#8242; gave Juventus the lead in the first half. Legendary goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was on top form, making two critical saves on Monaco youngster Kylian Mbappe&#8217;s attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Higuain took the stage again in 58&#8242;, netting a sliding shot following a Dani Alves cross after Monaco lost the ball in their half, handing Juventus the opportunity for a devastating counter-attack.<\/p>\n<p>Juventus now have a major advantage as no semi-finalist team has ever made a comeback from 2-0 down at home after the first leg.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian team&#8217;s defense made no mistakes once again. The team has not conceded a Champions League goal in 621 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg of the match-up will be played in Juventus stadium on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>In the other semi-final match-up, Real Madrid defeated city rivals Atletico Madrid 3-0 on Tuesday evening, thanks to a hat-trick from Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus defeated Monaco 2-0 in the first leg of a UEFA Champions League semi-final matchup at Stade Louis II on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,127],"tags":[405,377,6574,1125,1722],"class_list":["post-58808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-sport","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-champions-league","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-juventus","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78133,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58808\/revisions\/78133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}