{"id":3044,"date":"2026-05-06T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepvtimes.synology.me\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:55:13","slug":"champions-league-arsenal-back-in-the-final-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/champions-league-arsenal-back-in-the-final-20-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Arsenal back in the final, 20 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Arsenal&#8217;s English players, thanks to their star winger Bukayo Saka, tamed Antoine Griezmann&#8217;s Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in the second-leg semi-final (1-0) on Tuesday in London to reach the second Champions League final in their history, twenty years after the failure at Saint-Denis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Arsenal&#8217;s English players, thanks to their star winger Bukayo Saka, tamed Antoine Griezmann&#8217;s Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in the second leg of the semi-final (1-0) on Tuesday in London to reach the second Champions League final in their history, twenty years after the failure in Saint-Denis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thierry Henry, Robert Pir\u00e8s, and Mathieu Flamini, the former Gunners legends beaten by Bar\u00e7a in 2006, have finally found their successors: it will be the 2026 team led by Bukayo Saka, the club&#8217;s boy, captain, and scorer on Tuesday in a boiling Emirates.&#8221;It was a high-pressure match, it meant a lot for both teams. We managed to handle it well and make it to the final. It started even before the kickoff, when we arrived by bus. I have never seen anything like it,&#8221; said the hero of the match on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal&#8217;s English players, thanks to their star winger Bukayo Saka, tamed Antoine Griezmann&#8217;s Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in the second-leg semi-final (1-0) on Tuesday in London to reach the second Champions League&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-sport","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}