{"id":2095,"date":"2026-04-29T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:50:00","slug":"inside-training-stepping-into-the-semi-finals-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Inside Training: Stepping into the semi-finals | Video | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re in Madrid for our UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg against Atleti, and you can see what went down in our final training session before heading to the Spanish capital!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following our open training session, Mikel Arteta&#8217;s squad got down to business at the Sobha Realty Training Centre before jetting off to Madrid, where Atleti lay in wait at the Wanda Metropolitano.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp skills, small-sided games and much more were on display at Colney. Press play on the video above now to see what we got up to before our semi-final showdown!<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"bd5b5aba-35d3-4be5-aefe-8cde34bdd048\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"127118\" about=\"\/news\/preview-atletico-madrid-v-arsenal\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title\" title=\"Preview: Atletico Madrid v Arsenal\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Preview: Atletico Madrid v Arsenal <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in Madrid for our UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg against Atleti, and you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}