{"id":81650,"date":"2026-01-15T05:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81650"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:56:27","slug":"arsenal-beat-chelsea-3-2-in-carabao-cup-semi-final-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/15\/arsenal-beat-chelsea-3-2-in-carabao-cup-semi-final-first-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Beat Chelsea 3-2 in Carabao Cup Semi-Final First Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal moved closer to the Carabao Cup final after a 3-2 victory over Chelsea in the first leg of their semi-final clash at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors took an early lead in the 7th minute through Ben White, who reacted quickest to a corner. Arsenal dominated the early exchanges and controlled possession.<\/p>\n<p>After the restart, Viktor Gy\u00f6keres doubled Arsenal\u2019s advantage, capitalising on a goalkeeping error. Chelsea responded when substitute Alejandro Garnacho pulled one back to revive the hosts\u2019 hopes.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal restored their two-goal lead in the 71st minute as Martin Zubimendi finished off a well-worked move. Garnacho later scored his second to make it 3-2, but Arsenal held on for the win.<\/p>\n<p>The result gives Arsenal a narrow advantage ahead of the second leg at the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Arsenal moved closer to the Carabao Cup final after a 3-2 victory over Chelsea in the first leg of their semi-final clash at Stamford Bridge. The visitors took an early lead in the 7th minute through Ben White, who reacted quickest to a corner. Arsenal dominated the early exchanges and controlled possession. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81650","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\/81650","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=81650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81652,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81650\/revisions\/81652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}