{"id":59502,"date":"2025-01-12T23:09:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59502"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:09:57","slug":"manchester-united-edge-arsenal-in-thrilling-fa-cup-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/12\/manchester-united-edge-arsenal-in-thrilling-fa-cup-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Edge Arsenal in Thrilling FA Cup Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United edged past Arsenal in a thrilling FA Cup third-round match, winning 5-3 in a penalty shootout after the game ended 1-1 after extra time.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils&#8217; victory was all the more impressive given that they played almost half the match with 10 men, following Diogo Dalot&#8217;s sending off in the 62nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Bruno Fernandes opened the scoring for Manchester United in the 52nd minute, but Arsenal equalized just over 10 minutes later through Gabriel&#8217;s acrobatic finish. Despite being down to 10 men, United&#8217;s defense held strong, and the match ultimately went to a penalty shootout .<\/p>\n<p>In the shootout, Manchester United&#8217;s goalkeeper Altay Bayindir proved to be the hero, saving Kai Havertz&#8217;s penalty to give his side the advantage. Joshua Zirkzee then scored the winning penalty to send United through to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The victory sets up a fourth-round tie for Manchester United against Leicester City, while Arsenal&#8217;s FA Cup campaign comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat adds to Arsenal&#8217;s recent woes, following their 2-0 loss to Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup semifinals .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke\u00a0 Manchester United edged past Arsenal in a thrilling FA Cup third-round match, winning 5-3 in a penalty shootout after the game ended 1-1 after extra time. The Red Devils&#8217; victory was all the more impressive given that they played almost half the match with 10 men, following Diogo Dalot&#8217;s sending off in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59504,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59502\/revisions\/59504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}