{"id":169044,"date":"2012-03-16T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=169044"},"modified":"2012-03-16T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T13:38:07","slug":"spanish-giants-kept-apart-in-champions-league-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/16\/spanish-giants-kept-apart-in-champions-league-draw.html","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Giants Kept Apart in Champions League Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid were kept apart in the draw for the Champions League quarter- and semi-finals on Friday, setting up the possibility of a final showdown between the two in Munich, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20120316-spanish-giants-kept-apart-champions-league-draw\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">AFP<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid got the draw everyone wanted in the shape of Cypriot minnows APOEL Nicosia, while defending champions Barcelona landed Italian powerhouse AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Sole English survivors Chelsea will take on Benfica of Portugal, while the remaining tie sees Marseille up against Germany&#8217;s Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>Quarter-Finals<\/p>\n<p>APOEL (CYP) v Real Madrid (ESP) A<br \/>\nMarseille (FRA) v Bayern Munich (GER) B<br \/>\nBenfica (POR) v Chelsea (ENG) C<br \/>\nAC Milan (ITA) v Barcelona (ESP) D<\/p>\n<p>Matches to be played Mar. 27\/28 and Apr. 3\/4<\/p>\n<p>Semi-Finals<\/p>\n<p>Winner of B v winner of A<br \/>\nWinner of C v winner of D<\/p>\n<p>Matches to be played Apr. 17\/18 and Apr. 24\/25<\/p>\n<p>Final to be played in Munich on May 19.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid were kept apart in the draw for the Champions League quarter- and semi-finals on Friday.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19208,39468,23585,39469,39470,10940,10546,14014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}