{"id":1781,"date":"2026-04-07T23:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:25:23","slug":"highlights-sporting-cp-0-1-arsenal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Sporting CP 0-1 Arsenal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We will take a 1-0 lead back to north London in next week&#8217;s Champions League quarter-final second leg, as we snatched a late first-leg win at Sporting CP.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Havertz made the most of an excellent pass from fellow substitute Gabriel Martinelli to guide a composed finish home in the dying moments in Lisbon, potentially a crucial strike.<\/p>\n<p>We now retain focus on the Premier League with Saturday&#8217;s huge return to Emirates Stadium against Bournemouth, after which we will contest the Portuguese giants in next Wednesday&#8217;s second leg.<\/p>\n<p>You can take a look at the best of the action in the video above, with an extended cut and full match replay to come.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"7bc52bc7-2cad-423a-ab16-3a4b88706413\" 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=\"126242\" about=\"\/fixture\/arsenal\/2026-Apr-07\/sporting-cp-0-1-arsenal-match-report\">\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\" title=\"Report: Sporting CP 0-1 Arsenal\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Report: Sporting CP 0-1 Arsenal <\/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>We will take a 1-0 lead back to north London in next week&#8217;s Champions League quarter-final second leg, as we snatched a late first-leg win at Sporting CP. Kai Havertz &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","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\/1781","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=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}