{"id":4888,"date":"2026-05-06T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:36:27","slug":"arsenal-back-in-the-champions-league-final-during-a-week-to-savour-football-weekly-video-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4888","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal back in the Champions League final during a week to savour | Football Weekly \u2013 video | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Paul Watson as Arsenal make a first men\u2019s Champions League final in 20 years \u2026 and get an edge in the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to The Guardian Football Weekly \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FootballWeeklyPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s podcast: Arsenal reach the men\u2019s Champions League final for the first time in 20 years, a timely-in-form Bukayo Saka with the decisive goal. They defended like we know they can defend \u2013 limiting Atl\u00e9tico to virtually nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The panel discuss why the whole affair wasn\u2019t as nerve-wracking as it should have been.  Elsewhere, this win is the second great result for Arsenal in two days after Manchester City dropped points in their 3-3 draw away at Everton on Monday night. It means the title is in Arsenal\u2019s hands with three games to go. <\/p>\n<p>Also, Nottingham Forest make eight changes and still beat Chelsea, Ewan Murray joins us from the jazz bar and we answer your questions. <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; Coming up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>00:49 &#8211; Arsenal thought to UCL final<\/p>\n<p>26:47 &#8211; City lose vital ground in the Premier League title race<\/p>\n<p>35:08 &#8211; Are Chelsea the weirdest team in England?<\/p>\n<p>45:10 &#8211; Ewan Murray&#8217;s jazz corner<\/p>\n<p>1:02:40 &#8211; Paul Watson&#8217;s Vaduz corner <\/p>\n<p>Support the Guardian \u25ba https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/ <\/p>\n<p>Guardian Football Weekly podcast:<\/p>\n<p>Apple \u25ba https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/football-weekly\/id188674007<\/p>\n<p>Spotify \u25ba https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6w8qWe0kjgHEHSWDSDGoLW?si=231c666f7f5a4453 <\/p>\n<p>Follow Guardian Football Weekly: Instagram \u25ba https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/guardian_footballweekly\/<\/p>\n<p>TikTok \u25ba https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@guardian_footballweekly <\/p>\n<p>#footballweekly #football #arsenal #arteta #championsleague<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Paul Watson as Arsenal make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","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=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}