{"id":115568,"date":"2019-05-09T23:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115568"},"modified":"2019-05-09T23:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:37:29","slug":"europa-league-final-chelsea-to-play-arsenal-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115568","title":{"rendered":"Europa League final: Chelsea to play Arsenal in Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Europa-League-final-Chelsea-to-play-Arsenal-in-Baku.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Kepa Arizzabalaga saved two penalties, as Chelsea defeated Frankfurt 3-2 on penalties, to qualify for the Europa League final, where they face Premier League rivals Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The game had ended 1-1 after 120 minutes of action at Stamford Bridge and 2-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners qualified for the final of the Europa League, following a thrilling 4-2 win over Valencia at the Mestalla on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Gameiro struck first to give the LaLiga side the lead, before Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang levelled six minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Gameiro cancelled out Alexandre Lacazette\u2019s instinctive strike in the second half, before Aubameyang\u2019s brace settled the tie.<\/p>\n<p>The final will be played in Baku on May 29.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kepa Arizzabalaga saved two penalties, as Chelsea defeated Frankfurt 3-2 on penalties, to qualify for the Europa League final, where they face Premier League rivals Arsenal. The game had ended 1-1 after 120 minutes of action at Stamford Bridge and 2-2 on aggregate. The Gunners qualified for the final of the Europa League, following a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4427,1397],"class_list":["post-115568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-chelsea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}