{"id":21172,"date":"2025-04-17T07:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21172"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:53:31","slug":"arsenal-stun-real-madrid-to-reach-champions-league-semi-finals-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/arsenal-stun-real-madrid-to-reach-champions-league-semi-finals-after-16-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal stun Real Madrid to reach Champions League semi-finals after 16 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"\" data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"296\"><strong data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"124\">Madrid, April 17: <\/strong>English club Arsenal have advanced to the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for the first time in 16 years after a stunning victory over defending champions Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"298\" data-end=\"469\">In the second leg of the quarter-final held on Wednesday night at the iconic Estadio Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, Arsenal defeated Madrid 2-1, securing a dominant 5-1 aggregate win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"762\">Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli scored a goal each for Arsenal, while Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior netted the lone goal for Real Madrid. Saka opened the scoring in the 65th minute, giving the Gunners a crucial lead. Earlier, in the 13th minute of the first half, Saka had missed a penalty opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"1114\">Real Madrid responded swiftly as Vin\u00edcius equalized just two minutes later in the 67th minute. However, in the third minute of stoppage time, Martinelli scored a dramatic late winner to seal Arsenal&#8217;s 2-1 victory on the night and a convincing 5-1 win on aggregate. In the first leg, Arsenal had already established their dominance with a 3-0 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1295\">In another quarter-final clash on the same night, Inter Milan secured their spot in the semi-finals after a thrilling 2-2 draw against Bayern Munich, progressing 4-3 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1297\" data-end=\"1506\">The semi-finals are now set: Arsenal will face Paris Saint-Germain, while Barcelona take on Inter Milan. Both matches are scheduled for April 29, with the grand final to be held on May 31 at the Allianz Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid, April 17: English club Arsenal have advanced to the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for the first time in 16 years after a stunning victory over defending champions Real Madrid. In the second leg of the quarter-final held on Wednesday night at the iconic Estadio Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, Arsenal defeated Madrid 2-1, securing a dominant 5-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21175,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21172\/revisions\/21175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}