{"id":1193,"date":"2026-04-08T19:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:02:33","slug":"david-raya-shows-true-arsenal-feelings-with-bold-champions-league-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"David Raya shows true Arsenal feelings with bold Champions League prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<h2 class=\"LeadText_lead-text__wd_PA __className_32b220\" data-testid=\"leadtext\">Arsenal go into the quarter-final second leg against Sporting CP with a slender lead and David Raya believes the Gunners have what it takes to go all the way in the Champions League<\/h2>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX ImageEmbed_image-lead__Ti3qQ\" data-testid=\"leadimage\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"33731925\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Raya\" loading=\"eager\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 508px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.football.london\/article33731925.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/0_GettyImages-2270279720.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.football.london\/article33731925.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s508\/0_GettyImages-2270279720.jpg 508w, https:\/\/i2-prod.football.london\/article33731925.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_GettyImages-2270279720.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.football.london\/article33731925.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/0_GettyImages-2270279720.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"David Raya put in a man of the match display against Sporting CP (Photo by Alex Pantling - UEFA\/UEFA via Getty Images)\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">David Raya put in a man of the match display against Sporting CP (Photo by Alex Pantling &#8211; UEFA\/UEFA via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">David Raya has claimed Arsenal can &#8220;100 per cent&#8221; win the Champions League after their 1-0 victory against Sporting CP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The goalkeeper made a number of impressive saves in the quarter-final first leg clash to keep the score at 0-0 before Kai Havertz scored a stoppage-time winner to hand the Gunners a major advantage going into the second leg at Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Spain international, who was benched for both of Arsenal\u2019s cup defeats to Manchester City and Southampton, more than proved his worth with a stunning early save to deny Maxi Araujo ahead of two further late interventions prior to Havertz\u2019s injury-time winner. Raya\u2019s clean sheet was his 22nd across 41 matches so far this season \u2013 which is four greater than any other goalkeeper across Europe\u2019s top five leagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">FOLLOW OUR ARSENAL FB PAGE! <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a aria-label=\"Latest Gunners news, analysis and much more via our dedicated Facebook pageLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AFCFootball.London#\" rel=\"nofollow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Gunners news, analysis and much more via our dedicated Facebook page<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">And the Spaniard is now confident Arsenal will not just reach a second-successive Champions League semi-final for the first time in the club\u2019s history, but go on to win the competition for the first time, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe believe 100 per cent that we can win it,\u201d Raya told Amazon Prime. \u201cWe have to go step-by-step and game-by-game and keep showing what we can do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe have to focus on the present, but we have full belief. If you don\u2019t believe, you are never going to win it, so you have to keep believing no matter what you go through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe came from two losses, we had to learn from that and use the pain in our belly to express ourselves and be better every single day. That is really important and the message we have to send out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Havertz came off the bench in Lisbon to score his fourth goal of the season. Injury has seriously impacted the German&#8217;s gametime this campaign, with the former Chelsea man restricted to just 16 appearances so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The 26-year-old believes Arsenal can now go on to achieve something &#8220;very special&#8221; in the next couple of months. \u201cWe needed that as we were all frustrated with how the last couple of weeks went,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cBut now it\u2019s time to move forward, it\u2019s time to be positive and it\u2019s time to all stick together. As a group \u2013 as players, staff and the fans \u2013 we\u2019re all in this together and we still can make something happen this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It can be something very special. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to go for and now it\u2019s time to win games.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal go into the quarter-final second leg against Sporting CP with a slender lead and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","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\/1193","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=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}