{"id":510216,"date":"2026-03-22T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=510216"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:37:50","slug":"oreilly-lifts-man-city-to-efc-trophy-after-scoring-twice-against-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/oreilly-lifts-man-city-to-efc-trophy-after-scoring-twice-against-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly lifts Man City to EFC trophy after scoring twice against Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City won 2-0 against Arsenal at the EFL Cup final at Wembley as the big hero for the Sky Blues became Nico O&#8217;Reilly, who scored twice within 4 minutes in the 2nd half and practically won the trophy for his team.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola\u2019s side were the underdogs before the final, but they kept a clean sheet and won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> trophy in England this season, as they are still in the battle with Mikel Arteta\u2019s side for the Premier League title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2026 LEAGUE CUP WINNERS!!! \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ICxLVwIhOD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ICxLVwIhOD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/2035784804210233825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> half finished without goals as the Gunners had a good chance at the beginning of the match, while the Sky Blues answered in the end of the half, but neither situation led to a goal.<\/p>\n<p>The crucial moment in the final came in the 60<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Kepa Arrizabalaga made a huge mistake as he gifted the ball to Nico O&#8217;Reilly, who scored after an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Only 4 minutes later, Matheus Nunes with a phenomenal cross found Nico O&#8217;Reilly in the box, and he scored his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal in the match to make his team a huge favorite for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Until the end, the Gunners had a few chances, but failed to score any, and Manchester City won the EFL Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City won 2-0 against Arsenal at the EFL Cup final at Wembley as the big hero for the Sky Blues became Nico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":510217,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,17183],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18121,366],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Sky Blues won the silverware at Wembley by beating the Gunners.","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\/510216"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510218,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510216\/revisions\/510218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510216"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=510216"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=510216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}