{"id":1048,"date":"2026-04-07T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:32:12","slug":"the-heat-has-been-turned-up-on-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"The heat has been turned up on Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rapidwp-post-thumbnail-single-holder\">\n                                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"194\" height=\"148\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yankeegooner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-154.jpg?resize=194%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"rapidwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"The heat has been turned up on Arsenal\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\n                                                        <\/div>\n<p>The heat has been turned up as Arsenal prepare for the next step on the road to the Champions League Final with a two-leg stand-off with Sporting Lisbon, beginning on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have lost two in-a-row for the first time this season, and will need to rebound against a very good Portuguese club to keep their title dreams alive in this very important European competition.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Mikel Arteta got a boast with Gabriel, Trossard and Rice all returning to the training ground preparing to play on Tuesday night in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, here\u2019s my predicted starting XI v Sporting Lisbon\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(4-3-3)<\/p>\n<p>Trossard, Gyokeres, Madueke<\/p>\n<p>Rice, Odegaard, Zubimendi<\/p>\n<p>Calafiori, Gabriel, Saliba, Timber<\/p>\n<p>Raya<\/p>\n<p>Predicted final score: Sporting Lisbon 1 \u2013 ARSENAL 2<\/p>\n<p>VOYG!<\/p>\n<p>Gunner1953<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat has been turned up as Arsenal prepare for the next step on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}