{"id":3924,"date":"2026-04-09T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:29","slug":"arsenal-urged-to-start-raya-over-kepa-in-every-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=3924","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal urged to start Raya over Kepa in every game"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has been urged not to play goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga again this season after his poor recent performances.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kepa was selected over David Raya in Arsenal\u2019s cup matches this season, playing in every round of the Carabao Cup, including in their final defeat against Manchester City.<\/p>\n

The former Chelsea man was also in goal as Arsenal were knocked out of the FA Cup in a surprise defeat at Southampton last weekend.<\/p>\n

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Raya was brought back into Arteta\u2019s starting XI for the game against Sporting Lisbon last night, and Darren Bent feels it\u2019s clear he now has to start every single game between now and the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Bent doesn\u2019t want to see Kepa again as Arteta urged to start Raya<\/h2>\n

Speaking on talkSPORT, as quoted by Football365<\/a>Bent said: \u201cStop playing Kepa. I know it\u2019s not necessarily his fault, but I don\u2019t want to see Kepa again this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a back-up, perfect. David Raya, between now and the end of the season, has to play every single minute.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven if Arsenal destroy Sporting in the Champions League, next week I need David Raya in goal. Play him from now in every game until the end of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand he\u2019s trying to play bodies but these players are letting him down, they keep being given opportunities and they\u2019re not taking them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arsenal fans will surely agree with this after Raya\u2019s superb goalkeeping heroics in the win over Sporting last night.<\/p>\n

The Spanish shot-stopper is quite simply on a whole other level from Kepa, who flopped at Chelsea and who will surely never be more than a backup for a top club.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has been urged not to play goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga again this season after his poor recent performances. Kepa was selected over David Raya in Arsenal\u2019s cup matches this season, playing in every round of the Carabao Cup, including in their final defeat against Manchester City. The former Chelsea man was also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","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\/3924","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=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}