{"id":5483,"date":"2026-05-07T17:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:14:52","slug":"behind-the-scenes-how-we-reached-the-ucl-final-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5483","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes: How we reached the UCL final | Video | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>We reached our first Champions League final in 20 years, and you can see how we got there with our Access All Areas, extended special!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 1-1 draw at the Wanda Metropolitano against Atletico Madrid set things up perfectly for a big night in N5, and we delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Bukayo Saka&#8217;s goal was enough to send us to Budapest, where we&#8217;ll face Paris Saint-Germain on May 30.<\/p>\n<p>Press play on our Access All Areas special, covering the best behind-the-scenes moments from Madrid all the way to London and everything in between!<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"85385422-a87c-47d2-8cd1-f6a8a45858c5\" 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=\"127571\" about=\"\/news\/highlights-arsenal-1-0-atletico-madrid-2-1-agg\">\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 has-icon\" title=\"Highlights: Arsenal 1-0 Atletico Madrid (2-1 agg)\"> <i class=\"icon icon--play\"\/> <span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Highlights: Arsenal 1-0 Atletico Madrid (2-1 agg) <\/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 reached our first Champions League final in 20 years, and you can see how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","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\/5483","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=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}