{"id":510834,"date":"2026-04-04T17:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=510834"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:08:54","slug":"southampton-shocks-and-eliminates-arsenal-from-the-fa-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/southampton-shocks-and-eliminates-arsenal-from-the-fa-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton shocks and eliminates Arsenal from the FA Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton, with a phenomenal 2-1 win against Arsenal at home, means that they will play at Wembley in the \u00bd finals of the FA Cup, while the Gunners are out of the tournament after being defeated by a Championship side.<\/p>\n<p>The elimination came 2 weeks after Arsenal lost in the final of the Carabao Cup against Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the match came in the 35<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Ross Stewart converted a phenomenal cross to secure the lead for the Saints at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>After an hour, Mikel Arteta decided to make a triple substitution, and that had a positive effect as Viktor Gy\u00f6keres, who replaced Gabriel Jesus, tied the result 1-1 in the 68th minute after a phenomenal assist from Kai Havertz.<\/p>\n<p>When everyone expected that the Gunners will dominate until the end and made a comeback until the end of the regular time, exactly the opposite happen as Southampton scored again in the 85<sup>th<\/sup> minute as Shea Charles, who enter from the bench 9 minutes earlier, with his goal sent his team to the \u00bd finals of the FA Cup, while the North London club can focus until the end of the campaign in the Premier League and Champions League.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">50 years on from winning the competition&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthamptonFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SouthamptonFC<\/a> are heading back to Wembley!<\/p>\n<p>See you in the semi-finals \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xWcwAtWjk1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xWcwAtWjk1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emirates FA Cup (@EmiratesFACup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmiratesFACup\/status\/2040533776703328581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton, with a phenomenal 2-1 win against Arsenal at home, means that they will play at Wembley in the \u00bd finals of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":510835,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,17454],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18674,366],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Saints had a huge victory against 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\/510834"}],"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=510834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510836,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510834\/revisions\/510836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510834"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=510834"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=510834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}