{"id":9553,"date":"2026-06-09T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:44:09","slug":"raya-wins-player-of-the-month-for-may-player-of-the-month-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=9553","title":{"rendered":"Raya wins Player of the Month for May | Player of the month | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>David Raya has won our final fan-voted Player of the Month award of the season.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a symbol of consistency in 2025\/26, and May was no different.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard produced an incredible save to deny Matheus Fernandes from close range during our crucial 1-0 win over West Ham United at the London Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>David also picked up his third straight Premier League Golden Glove award, keeping 19 clean sheets in our league season. <\/p>\n<p>The goalkeeper showed his composure during the Champions League final, as well as thwarting Nuno Mendes during the penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time he has won the award, last doing so in September 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Raya has won our final fan-voted Player of the Month award of the season. He has been a symbol of consistency in 2025\/26, and May was no different. The Spaniard produced an incredible save to deny Matheus Fernandes from close range during our crucial 1-0 win over West Ham United at the London Stadium. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553","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=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}