{"id":513094,"date":"2026-05-30T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=513094"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:10:18","slug":"psg-beat-arsenal-after-penalties-to-defend-the-champions-league-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/psg-beat-arsenal-after-penalties-to-defend-the-champions-league-title\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG beat Arsenal after penalties to defend the Champions League title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PSG will lift the Champions League trophy for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive season after they defeated Arsenal in a shootout after a 1-1 in the regular and extra time and 4-3 in the penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Things began fantastically for Mikel Arteta and his team as they secured the lead in the match after only 6 minutes. The ball went to Kai Havertz, and the German scored from inside the box under the crossbar to open the score in the final.<\/p>\n<p>That allowed the Gunners to defend, and they were very great at that as they shut down PSG in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half and were leading after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Things continued to be good for the north London club until Cristhian Mosquera in the 62<sup>nd<\/sup> made a penalty and Ousmane Dembele converted it in the 65<sup>th<\/sup> minute to tie the result.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team took any big risks, and the regular time ended in a draw, as the same thing also happened in the extra 30 minutes, and the title was decided after a shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Eze and Gabriel failed to score for Arsenal as the Brazilian defender&#8217;s penalty was the deciding factor that secured the trophy for PSG.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Back-to-back \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Your 2025\/26 Champions League winners: Paris Saint-Germain \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udc99<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/UCLfinal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#UCLfinal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xltuTOP2VB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xltuTOP2VB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChampionsLeague\/status\/2060798637265887570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSG will lift the Champions League trophy for a 2nd consecutive season after they defeated Arsenal in a shootout after a 1-1 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":513096,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18002],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18093,366],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The French team triumphed in the UCL again.","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\/513094"}],"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=513094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513097,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513094\/revisions\/513097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513094"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=513094"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=513094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}