{"id":60184,"date":"2026-01-21T02:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=60184"},"modified":"2026-01-21T02:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:30:21","slug":"manchester-city-suffer-heavy-defeat-in-the-uefa-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/manchester-city-suffer-heavy-defeat-in-the-uefa-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Suffer Heavy Defeat in the UEFA Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Norwegian side Bod\u00f8\/Glimt produced a major shock in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday, defeating Manchester City 3\u20131.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remarkably, the team that overcame City \u2014 former champions of the competition \u2014 had never previously recorded a single win in the tournament. The victory over the former European and English champions kept Bod\u00f8\/Glimt\u2019s slim hopes of reaching the knockout stages alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Danish striker Kasper H\u00f8gh struck twice in quick succession midway through the first half, before Jens Petter Hauge added a superb third goal in the 58th minute, putting the club from north of the Arctic Circle firmly on course for a stunning win.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>City pulled one back through Rayan Cherki after an hour of play, but captain Rodri was sent off just two minutes later after receiving two quick yellow cards, effectively ending the visitors\u2019 hopes of a comeback.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ahead of the remaining matches of the round, City sit fourth in the 36-team league standings with 13 points, while Bod\u00f8\/Glimt are placed 26th.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian side Bod\u00f8\/Glimt produced a major shock in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday, defeating Manchester City 3\u20131. Remarkably, the team that overcame City \u2014 former champions of the competition \u2014 had never previously recorded a single win in the tournament. The victory over the former European and English champions kept Bod\u00f8\/Glimt\u2019s slim hopes of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60187,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60184\/revisions\/60187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}