{"id":4453,"date":"2026-05-05T21:32:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:32:52","slug":"arsenal-player-ratings-vs-atletico-madrid-the-gunners-are-going-to-budapest-bukayo-saka-on-the-spot-to-send-mikel-artetas-side-to-champions-league-final-on-night-to-remember-in-north-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4453","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal player ratings vs Atletico Madrid: The Gunners are going to Budapest! Bukayo Saka on the spot to send Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side to Champions League final on night to remember in north London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p><b><strong>David Raya (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Didn&#8217;t actually have that much to do but stepped up when called upon in the second half, while his distribution was decent throughout. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Ben White (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Played the ball in behind for Gyokeres that led to the deadlock being broken, and didn&#8217;t really put a foot wrong defensively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>William Saliba (6\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>A couple of tidy bits of defending to prevent Alvarez from getting away in the first half, but was so lucky that his wayward header didn&#8217;t lead to Giuliano equalising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Gabriel Magalhaes (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Did incredibly well to put off Giuliano without dragging him to the ground, and also managed to snuff out the danger after a Raya save soon after by getting his body in between the ball and his man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Riccardo Calafiori (6\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The Italian retained his spot at left-back ahead of Hincapie and, as usual, always looked to get forward whenever he could. So lucky, though, that the whistle had already blown for a soft free-kick on Gabriel when he stamped on Griezmann in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Raya (7\/10): Didn&#8217;t actually have that much to do but stepped up when called&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453","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=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}