{"id":2412,"date":"2026-04-15T23:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:43:40","slug":"the-4-african-players-qualified-for-the-semi-finals-of-the-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"The 4 African players qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>After the quarter-finals of the Champions League, four African players will play for their future in the semi-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Champions League semi-final table is known. This Wednesday, Arsenal and Bayern Munich validated their tickets at the end of the return quarters at the expense of Sporting and Real Madrid respectively, thus joining Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and PSG, qualified the day before at the expense of Bar\u00e7a and Liverpool. PSG will face Bayern in the clash of the last four while Atl\u00e9tico will stand on the road to Arsenal. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Champions League semi-finalists \u2705<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PnmthReimO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PnmthReimO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague\/status\/2044521028823420978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3rd half for Hakimi, 2 Senegalese in the running<\/h2>\n<p>Four African players can still believe in the title. We find the Parisians <strong>Ashraf Hakimi<\/strong> (Morocco) and <strong>Ibrahim Mbaye<\/strong> (Senegal), semi-finalists for the third time and the second consecutive time respectively, another Senegalese, <strong>Nicolas Jackson<\/strong>did not come into play during these quarters for Bayern, and finally the Nigerian <strong>Ademola Lookman<\/strong>scorer Tuesday with Atl\u00e9tico.<\/p>\n<p>For Jackson, it will be his first in C1 while Lookman will taste his second half six years after his baptism of fire under the colors of Leipzig. Note that only Hakimi and Mbaye have already been crowned, just once, last year with PSG. In the event of a double, they will join the closed circle of Samuel Eto&#8217;o or Geremi Njitap.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the quarter-finals of the Champions League, four African players will play for their future in the semi-finals. The Champions League semi-final table is known. This Wednesday, Arsenal and Bayern Munich validated their tickets at the end of the return quarters at the expense of Sporting and Real Madrid respectively, thus joining Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}