\u201cI\u2019ve been involved in some finals (for Arsenal), but I didn\u2019t play,\u201d Bukayo said, \u201cso this is going to be my first. I\u2019ve come through the academy and to be in this position now, I\u2019m very excited at the prospect of winning at Wembley.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bukayo was part of the squad that met Chelsea in both the 2019 Europa League final and the 2020 FA Cup final, so while our no.7 has been involved in a cup final win, Sunday will be his first opportunity to take to the pitch in such a game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was like my wildest dream. As a kid, I wanted to play for Arsenal and just enjoy it, for me, that was enough. But I do love the club, so it\u2019s time to win some big things.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like this year, we have such a strong belief that we can do it. We have quality, we have a great squad, and I think that mix is what\u2019s making me believe.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ben sees our Carabao Cup run as one big journey, with Sunday the final piece in the hopefully trophy-shaped puzzle.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be amazing,\u201d the defender said on our official podcast The Dispatch<\/em>\u201ca lot of work has gone into getting to where we are, and we\u2019re looking to finish it off. It\u2019s a cup I\u2019ve played a lot of games in this season, so it\u2019s nice to get to the end and having a chance of getting some silverware.\u201d<\/p>\n As well as the chance to capture our first trophy of the season, Ben is looking forward to playing in the famous Wembley atmosphere in a high-stakes game.<\/p>\n \u201cThe atmosphere is obviously going to be amazing. We know what it means to win, but we know what we need to do, just believe in ourselves and hopefully get over the line.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen there\u2019s a bit of pressure on the line, that\u2019s when the top, top players come out, and the top teams. I believe that we are (one of those teams), so it\u2019s exciting for us.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kai is no stranger to a cup final having played and scored in silverware showdowns earlier in his career, but even to someone with his experience of finals, Wembley is a special place to play.<\/p>\n \u201cIn general it\u2019s always nice because you have the split in the stands,\u201d Kai said, also speaking on The Dispatch<\/em>. \u201cOne (whole) side is red; as a player it\u2019s amazing when you see your fans in the stadium and the other side is the away team. It just shows it\u2019s a final; Wembley has so much history.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked about his motivation to deliver on such occasions, Kai opened up on his own personal motivations.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve worked all my life to play these kind of games. I would never put pressure on my shoulders. It\u2019s just about going out and enjoying it because you don\u2019t have a lot of games like this to play in your career.\u201d <\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n 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":" Ahead of Sunday\u2019s Carabao Cup final, several of our Gunners have been looking ahead to the clash with Manchester City as we bid to win silverware at Wembley. We haven\u2019t … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","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\/1214","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=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Carabao Cup final preview: Arsenal v Man City <\/span>
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