{"id":1028,"date":"2026-03-18T00:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:42:33","slug":"highlights-arsenal-2-0-bayer-leverkusen-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Arsenal 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cracking goals from Eberechi Eze and Declan Rice gave us a 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen to send us through to the last eight of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Eze\u2019s first ever goal in the competition was certainly one to remember, as he cracked home from 20 yards, before Rice drove home our second after the break.<\/p>\n<p>David Raya made an excellent late save as well to preserve the clean sheet, and complete a well-deserved win, that sends us through 3-1 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch our bitesize highlights now, by clicking on the video above, with an extended edit and the full match replay to follow soon.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"23593f98-999c-4527-a443-d0ee20ca2f91\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"125438\" about=\"\/news\/arteta-outstanding-eze-and-immense-rice\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title has-icon\" title=\"Arteta on \u2018outstanding\u2019 Eze and \u2018immense\u2019 Rice\"> <i class=\"icon icon--play\"\/> <span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Arteta on \u2018outstanding\u2019 Eze and \u2018immense\u2019 Rice <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracking goals from Eberechi Eze and Declan Rice gave us a 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen to send us through to the last eight of the Champions League. Eze\u2019s first &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}