{"id":3511,"date":"2026-04-08T05:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:11:24","slug":"sporting-cp-0-1-arsenal-kai-havertz-nets-late-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"Sporting CP 0-1 Arsenal: Kai Havertz nets late winner"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Arsenal claimed a narrow 1-0 victory over Sporting CP in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final clash at the Estadio Jose Alvalade on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Neither side created any other clear-cut chances, and both sides went into the break goalless.<\/p>\n

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

Moments later, Martin Zubimendi thought he had given the Gunners the lead after his first-time shot found the bottom corner, but the goal was chalked off as Viktor Gyokeres was caught offside in the buildup.<\/p>\n

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

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

Arsenal have a narrow advantage heading into the second leg at the Emirates Stadium next Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal claimed a narrow 1-0 victory over Sporting CP in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final clash at the Estadio Jose Alvalade on Tuesday. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}