{"id":3494,"date":"2026-05-03T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:12:12","slug":"highlights-lyon-3-1-arsenal-women-video-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Lyon 3-1 Arsenal Women | Video | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Despite a valiant effort, particularly in the second half, we were unable to win the UEFA Women&#8217;s Champions League semi-final second leg at Lyon, and you can watch the best of the action now with our highlights package.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trailing 2-1 after the first leg in N5, the French side started brightly and, on the overall balance of play, deservedly emerged 3-1 victors to reach the final 4-3 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>First-half strikes from Wendie Renard and Kadidiatou Diani saw the hosts turn the tie around, before Alessia Russo reduced the arrears in the second half, but a dubious late winner from Julie Brand, who appeared offside, settled the match.<\/p>\n<p>Press play on the video above to see the highlights from France.<\/p>\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>Despite a valiant effort, particularly in the second half, we were unable to win the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","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\/3494","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=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}