{"id":90,"date":"2026-04-16T21:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=90"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:23:21","slug":"all-english-european-ties-aston-villa-and-nottingham-forest-meet-in-europa-league-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"All-English European ties: Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest meet in Europa League semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Few European ties have been as emotionally charged as the 2005 Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just under two years after Roman Abramovich&#8217;s takeover, Chelsea were assembling a star-studded squad under Jose Mourinho, while the Reds were seeking a return to the top of continental football after two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-legged tie was decided by a single moment at Anfield &#8211; a controversial Luis Garcia goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool were adamant the ball had crossed the line before William Gallas cleared on the goalline, but those of a Chelsea persuasion vehemently disagreed. But in the pre-technology era and replays also inconclusive, only referee Lubos Michel&#8217;s opinion mattered.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool went on to complete an extraordinary comeback in the final against AC Milan to lift the trophy in Istanbul, while their rivalry with Chelsea continued to grow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few European ties have been as emotionally charged as the 2005 Champions League semi-final between<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}