{"id":1657,"date":"2026-04-04T21:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:07:38","slug":"southampton-2-1-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Southampton 2 &#8211; 1 Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Arsenal crashed out of the FA Cup quarter-finals as Southampton produced some cup magic to beat the Premier League leaders 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>In their first game since losing the Carabao Cup final, Mikel Arteta&#8217;s team put in another tame performance as Saints sensed and took their opportunity with goals from Ross Stewart and substitute Shea Charles.<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Gyokeres did draw Arsenal level on 68 minutes but Saints stood strong and hit the Gunners with a counter-punch courtesy of Charles&#8217; expert finish with five minutes to play.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton can look forward to a Wembley semi-final against Man City, Chelsea or West Ham or Leeds, who play on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to follow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s coming up?<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal crashed out of the FA Cup quarter-finals as Southampton produced some cup magic to beat the Premier League leaders 2-1. In their first game since losing the Carabao Cup &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","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\/1657","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=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}