{"id":79730,"date":"2025-12-06T17:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79730"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:57:21","slug":"gyokeres-a-painful-way-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/06\/gyokeres-a-painful-way-to-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyokeres: \u2018A painful way to lose\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal forward Viktor Gyokeres has described the club\u2019s last-second defeat to Aston Villa as \u201cone of the toughest ways to lose,\u201d after Emi Buendia\u2019s stoppage-time strike ended the Gunners\u2019 18-match unbeaten run.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal had fought back through Leandro Trossard after Matty Cash\u2019s opener, and appeared set for a point before Buendia\u2019s late winner stunned Mikel Arteta\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>Gyokeres said the dressing room was naturally deflated but insisted the team would recover quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel good right now, but it\u2019s early in the season and we have plenty of games ahead. Losing like that hurts, but we move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Villa\u2019s strong home record, Arsenal carved out several chances, with Emiliano Mart\u00ednez making nine saves.<\/p>\n<p>Gyokeres added that the team\u2019s attacking intent remains encouraging: \u201cIf we keep creating opportunities, the goals will come. We\u2019ll learn from this and come back stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Arsenal forward Viktor Gyokeres has described the club\u2019s last-second defeat to Aston Villa as \u201cone of the toughest ways to lose,\u201d after Emi Buendia\u2019s stoppage-time strike ended the Gunners\u2019 18-match unbeaten run. Arsenal had fought back through Leandro Trossard after Matty Cash\u2019s opener, and appeared set for a point before Buendia\u2019s late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79730","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\/79730","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79732,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79730\/revisions\/79732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}