{"id":4883,"date":"2026-05-06T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:24:31","slug":"our-top-25-champions-league-moments-feature-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4883","title":{"rendered":"Our top 25 Champions League moments | Feature | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-family:Northbank Forward\" class=\"Theme-TextSize-small\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-2\"><strong>20-second stunner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Northbank Forward\" class=\"Theme-TextSize-xxsmall\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-2\">psv eindhoven 0-4 Arsenal<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Northbank Forward\" class=\"Theme-TextSize-xxxsmall\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-2\">september 25, 2002<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"InlineMedia InlineMedia--image media-size-110\" data-lazyload-container=\"true\" data-lazyload-trigger=\"true\"><figcaption class=\"Theme-Caption Theme-InlineMediaCaption\">\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-family:Neue Haas Grotesk\" class=\"\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-2\">Ahead of this trip to the Netherlands, we&#8217;d not tasted victory away from Highbury in our last six Champions League trips, but it took us just 20 seconds to start rectifying that run out in Eindhoven as Gilberto\u2019s quickfire effort paved the way for a long-awaited away day win, and a stylish one to boot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Neue Haas Grotesk\" class=\"\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-2\">From the kick-off, the ball was played to our backline where Sol Campbell saw a pass cut out, and then Gilberto couldn\u2019t control the ricochet. However, Ljungberg swiftly won back possession and sent Henry racing away down the left, and his first-time centre fell perfectly for the Brazilian to fire us in front, officially after 20.7 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Neue Haas Grotesk\" class=\"\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-2\">Despite being overtaken by Bayern Munich\u2019s Roy Makaay\u2019s 10.12-second effort against Real Madrid in 2007, Gilberto\u2019s blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it goal is still the third-fastest in the competition\u2019s history. Ljungberg added our second before a Henry brace put the gloss on an emphatic win in the first Champions League meeting between the teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-second stunner psv eindhoven 0-4 Arsenal september 25, 2002 Ahead of this trip to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4883","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\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}