{"id":246715,"date":"2026-04-08T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsworldghana.com\/?p=246715"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:48:10","slug":"uefa-champions-league-kai-havertz-scores-late-winner-as-arsenal-defeat-sporting-cp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/2026\/04\/08\/uefa-champions-league-kai-havertz-scores-late-winner-as-arsenal-defeat-sporting-cp\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Champions League: Kai Havertz scores late winner as Arsenal defeat Sporting CP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Arsenal<\/strong><\/span> claimed a narrow 1-0 victory over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sporting CP<\/strong><\/span> in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final clash at the Estadio <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jose Alvalade <\/strong><\/span>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hosts carved out the first opening when Ousmane Diomande slipped a clever pass to Maxi Araujo on the left, but his fierce strike was brilliantly clawed onto the crossbar by David Raya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moments later, Araujo\u2019s strike from 20 yards out flew just wide before Geny Catamo forced a save from David Raya at his near post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the other end, Noni Madueke came agonisingly close to an Olympic goal, as his wicked inswinging corner crashed off the bar before Martin Odegaard fired the rebound wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither side created any other clear-cut chances, and both sides went into the break goalless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four minutes after the restart, Leandro Trossard could\u2019ve broken the deadlock, but his long-range effort flew wide before Raya got down quickly to deny Francisco Trincao at the other end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moments later, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Martin Zubimendi<\/strong><\/span> thought he had given the Gunners the lead after his first-time shot found the bottom corner, but the goal was chalked off as <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Viktor Gyokeres<\/span><\/strong> was caught offside in the buildup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gabriel Martinelli forced Rui Silva into a low save before Raya made a double save at his near post, denying Catamo and Luis Su\u00e1rez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the second minute of injury time, Kai Havertz finally broke the stalemate, receiving a precise pass from Martinelli before calmly slotting home the decisive winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arsenal have a narrow advantage heading into the second leg at the Emirates Stadium next Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal claimed a narrow 1-0 victory over Sporting CP in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final clash&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,164,165,166,167,169],"class_list":["post-246715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-stories","tag-arsenal","tag-jose-alvalade","tag-kai-havertz","tag-martin-zubimendi","tag-sporting-cp","tag-viktor-gyokeres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}