{"id":492516,"date":"2025-04-29T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492516"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:55:57","slug":"dembele-gives-psg-slim-advantage-over-arsenal-in-champions-league-1-2-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dembele-gives-psg-slim-advantage-over-arsenal-in-champions-league-1-2-final-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Dembele gives PSG slim advantage over Arsenal in Champions League 1\/2-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain edged Arsenal 1\u20130 in a tightly contested Champions League semi-final first leg at the Emirates Stadium, gaining a valuable away win and a narrow advantage heading into the return fixture at the Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n<p>The decisive moment came early in the 4th minute, when Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 capitalized on a clever one-two with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, finding space in the box and coolly slotting a low shot past David Raya into the bottom-left corner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9\ud83e\ude84 Vitinha (25) completed 31 passes in the first-half. No Arsenal or PSG player made more than him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKVkYycMnH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WKVkYycMnH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurofootcom\/status\/1917306034625941897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>PSG dominated the early stages, with Marquinhos nearly doubling the lead in the 14th minute with a powerful header from an Achraf Hakimi cross\u2014only to be denied by Raya. As the half progressed, chances fell to Desire Dou\u00e9 and Kvaratskhelia, but Arsenal\u2019s defense and Raya\u2019s sharp reflexes kept the deficit to one.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners thought they had equalized just after halftime through Mikel Merino, but the goal was ruled out by VAR for offside, much to the frustration of the home crowd.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">La premi\u00e8re manche est \u00e0 nous ! \ud83d\udc4a<br \/>\nRendez-vous mercredi au Parc \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udc99<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARSPSG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ARSPSG<\/a> (0-1) | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NuH6cVGtkc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NuH6cVGtkc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSG_inside\/status\/1917321610199028097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Late in the match, PSG nearly sealed a second goal that could have proved crucial. Bradley Barcola saw a dangerous shot narrowly miss the target in the 84th minute, and Gon\u00e7alo Ramos struck the crossbar just a minute later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain edged Arsenal 1\u20130 in a tightly contested Champions League semi-final first leg at the Emirates Stadium, gaining a valuable away win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492517,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18072,18002],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18073,18093,366],"acf":{"announce":"PSG won 1-0 in London and will play the return leg at home with slight advantage","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\/492516"}],"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=492516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492518,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492516\/revisions\/492518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492516"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492516"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}