{"id":112979,"date":"2019-05-02T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112979"},"modified":"2019-05-02T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:00:13","slug":"champions-league-highest-goalscorers-after-semi-final-first-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112979","title":{"rendered":"Champions League highest goalscorers after semi-final first legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Champions-League-highest-goalscorers-after-semi-final-first-legs-See-top-22.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The first leg of the semi-final ties of the Champions League, were concluded on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ajax stunned Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona hammered Liverpool 3-0 at the Nou Camp 24hours after, with Lionel Messi netting twice.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s brace takes him up to 12 goals in the competition this season.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the current highest goal scorers, chasing the Golden Boot in the Europe top-flight league.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA Champions League leading scorers after semi-final first legs:<\/p>\n<p>12 goals: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)<\/p>\n<p>8 goals: Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)<\/p>\n<p>6 goals: Dusan Tadic (Ajax), Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) and Moussa Marega (FC Porto), Aguero (Manchester City)<\/p>\n<p>5 goals: Dybala (Juventus), Dzeko (Roma), Kane (Tottenham), Kramaric (Hoffenheim), Neymar (PSG).<\/p>\n<p>4 goals: Benzema (Real Madrid), Jesus (Manchester City), Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund), Icardi (Inter Milan), Mbappe (Paris SG), Sane (Manchester City)<\/p>\n<p>3 goals: Manuel Corona (FC Porto), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid), Nabil Fekir (Lyon), Moraes (Shakhtar Donetsk).\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first leg of the semi-final ties of the Champions League, were concluded on Wednesday night. Ajax stunned Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 on Tuesday night. Barcelona hammered Liverpool 3-0 at the Nou Camp 24hours after, with Lionel Messi netting twice. Messi\u2019s brace takes him up to 12 goals in the competition this season. Below are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7410,10667],"class_list":["post-112979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-champion-league","tag-lionel-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}