{"id":189091,"date":"2020-01-29T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=189091"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T08:05:37","slug":"carabao-cup-aston-villa-to-play-man-utd-man-city-in-wembley-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=189091","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup: Aston Villa to play Man Utd, Man City in Wembley final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Aston Villa have qualified for the final of this season\u2019s Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Midlands club defeated Leicester City 2-1, in the second leg of their semi-final tie on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>With the score delicately poised at 1-1, both teams came into the match at Villa Park with a chance to progress.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Grealish set up Matt Targett to smash a shot past Kasper Schmeichel to make it 1-0, before Kelechi Iheanacho equalized in the 72nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Trezeguet then scored a dramatic late winner as Villa edged it 3-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Five-times winners Villa will face either Manchester United or Manchester City, who play in the other semi-final on Wednesday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa have qualified for the final of this season\u2019s Carabao Cup. The Midlands club defeated Leicester City 2-1, in the second leg of their semi-final tie on Tuesday night. With the score delicately poised at 1-1, both teams came into the match at Villa Park with a chance to progress. Jack Grealish set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189092,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,11978,11352],"class_list":["post-189091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-aston-villa","tag-kelechi-iheanacho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189091","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=189091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}