{"id":492443,"date":"2025-04-16T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492443"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:30:57","slug":"arsenal-beats-real-madrid-at-bernabeu-to-clinch-first-cl-semis-in-16-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arsenal-beats-real-madrid-at-bernabeu-to-clinch-first-cl-semis-in-16-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal beats Real Madrid at Bernabeu to clinch first CL semis in 16 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bukayo Saka scored one and missed a penalty as Arsenal booked their place in the Champions League semi-finals with a 2-1 win over Real Madrid on the night and a 5-1 aggregate triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the second leg at the Bernabeu with a commanding 3-0 lead from the first leg, Arsenal had a chance to tighten their grip early when they were awarded a 13th-minute penalty.<\/p>\n<p>But Saka\u2019s chipped spot-kick lacked conviction and was easily saved by Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old, however, made up for his miss in the second half, scoring with a brilliant chipped finish over Courtois after a clever through-ball from Mikel Merino, virtually ending the contest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lightning strikes twice \u26a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JwfWGDGGJm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JwfWGDGGJm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1912619338022166716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Real responded almost immediately, as a mistake from William Saliba allowed Vinicius Junior to pull one back with a simple tap-in, but that was as close as they got.<\/p>\n<p>In stoppage time, Gabriel Martinelli sealed the win with a calm finish on the break, once again assisted by the impressive Merino.<\/p>\n<p>This marks only the third time in Arsenal&#8217;s history that they\u2019ve reached the semi-finals of Europe\u2019s elite competition. Paris Saint-Germain await in the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bukayo Saka scored one and missed a penalty as Arsenal booked their place in the Champions League semi-finals with a 2-1 win over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492444,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18072,17375],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18073,366,327],"acf":{"announce":"The Gunners will face PSG in the semi-finals ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492447,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492443\/revisions\/492447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492443"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492443"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}