{"id":510934,"date":"2026-04-07T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=510934"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:07:30","slug":"havertzs-extra-time-goal-led-arsenal-to-win-vs-sporting-in-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/havertzs-extra-time-goal-led-arsenal-to-win-vs-sporting-in-lisbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Havertz\u2019s extra time goal led Arsenal to win vs. Sporting in Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal needed an extra time goal to defeat Sporting Lisbon 1-0 in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> leg of the \u00bc finals of the Champions League, and now the Gunners are huge favorites to reach the \u00bd finals of the tournament as the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg will be in London.<\/p>\n<p>The home side were close to opening the score in the 7th minute, but Maximiliano Araujo&#8217;s shot hit the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> huge chance for Arsenal to score came in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Noni Madueke struck the crossbar, and the match remained without goals.<\/p>\n<p>In the 63<sup>rd<\/sup> minute, the Gunners scored as Martin Zubimendi did it, but his goal was later disallowed for an offside.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting had a great chance in the 83<sup>rd<\/sup> minute, but Geny Catamo\u2019s header was saved by David Raya.<\/p>\n<p>The only goal in the game came in the extra time when Gabriel Martinelli found Kai Havertz, and the German scored into the bottom left corner to secure an advantage for his team before the 2nd leg at the Emirates next week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TAKING CONTROL OF THE TIE \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJnX8aysOL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zJnX8aysOL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/2041621592917049486?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 7, 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>Arsenal needed an extra time goal to defeat Sporting Lisbon 1-0 in the 1st leg of the \u00bc finals of the Champions League, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":510935,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18262],"news_category":[142,14235],"gn_keywords":[23364,366],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Gunners almost secured their spot in the semifinals.","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\/510934"}],"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=510934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510936,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510934\/revisions\/510936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510934"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=510934"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=510934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}