{"id":29622,"date":"2025-10-21T20:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=29622"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:44:28","slug":"arsenal-v-atletico-madrid-champions-league-live-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=29622","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal v Atl\u00e9tico Madrid: Champions League \u2013\u00a0live | Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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84 min:<\/strong> Gallagher is found in space on the right-hand edge of the Arsenal box. He aims for the top right, but Raya palms around the post. Then the whistle goes for Baena\u2019s transgression earlier in the move. Absolutely nothing going right for Atleti now. Alvarez\u2019s effort twanging off the crossbar at 0-0 seems an eternity ago.<\/p>\n

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83 min:<\/strong> Nothing comes of the corner.<\/p>\n

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82 min:<\/strong> Ruggeri advances down the left and wins a corner off Timber. But before it can be taken, Gy\u00f6keres and Timber are replaced by White and Merino. A huge reception for Gy\u00f6keres as he departs. A weight off the striker\u2019s mind after breaking his nine-game scoreless run with a brace.<\/p>\n

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81 min:<\/strong> No goal this time, as Hancko is bundled over in the box.<\/p>\n

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80 min:<\/strong> Gy\u00f6keres bustles down the left and wins a free kick. Rice to send it into the mixer.<\/p>\n

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79 min:<\/strong> The ol\u00e9s again. It\u2019s party time in north London.<\/p>\n

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78 min:<\/strong> Almada has a dig from distance. Easy for Raya. The Atleti fire has pretty much been extinguished.<\/p>\n

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77 min:<\/strong> The home crowd start early with the ol\u00e9s. Any old excuse \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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75 min:<\/strong> Le Normand is booked for taking out Gy\u00f6keres with a tackle from behind. \u201cIt occurs to me that Arteta\u2019s Gunners aren\u2019t a million miles away from the 2013-16 Atl\u00e9ti, which I tend to think of as \u2018pure uncut Simeone\u2019,\u201d writes K\u00e1ri Tulinius. \u201cEven though they were built on the foundation of a rock-solid defense, they would routinely blow teams away. Once they got the opening goal, often from a set-piece, if the other side came on to them, they\u2019d tear them to shreds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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74 min:<\/strong> \u201cI can only assume that Diego Simeone will get chummy with a vocal Arsenal fan right about now,\u201d suggests Peter Oh. He\u2019s currently staring at a spot exactly 1,000 yards ahead of him, so he\u2019s not spoiling for a fight yet. But give it time.<\/p>\n

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73 min:<\/strong> Arsenal can put their feet up now, and make a triple change. Gabriel, Eze and Zubimendi make way for Mosquera, Norgaard and Nwaneri.<\/p>\n

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72 min:<\/strong> That\u2019s four goals in 14 minutes. Atleti respond by replacing Simeone and S\u00f8rolth with Almada and Griezmann.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Arsenal 4-0 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (Gy\u00f6keres 70)<\/h2>\n

Arsenal win a corner down the left. Rice loops it to the far post. Gabriel wins a header at the far post, sending the ball back across the face of goal. Gy\u00f6keres, racing in from the left, bundles home. Arsenal are rampant, but Atleti have fallen apart.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres scores again!<\/span> Photograph: Catherine Ivill\/AMA\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a016.37 EDT<\/p>\n

69 min:<\/strong> The home fans dip into their songbook again. Classic section once more. \u2669\u266c\u266d Are you Tottenham in disguise? \u266c \u266a \u266b<\/em><\/p>\n

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GOAL! Arsenal 3-0 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (Gy\u00f6keres 67)<\/h2>\n

Make it three in 11! Martinelli is sent flying down the left. He crosses. Eze shoots. Blocked. The ball drops to Gy\u00f6keres, who tries to force the ball into the bottom right. It deflects off Hancko and into the bottom left. Scruffy as hell, but that\u2019s broken his goal drought, so he won\u2019t care one jot.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Viktor Gyokeres makes it 3-0 for Arsenal.<\/span> Photograph: John Walton\/PAShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a016.32 EDT<\/p>\n

66 min:<\/strong> Arsenal have really exploded into life here. They\u2019d been arguably second best since the start of the second half, but suddenly woke from their slumber and look to have put Atleti away with two goals in eight minutes!<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Arsenal 2-0 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (Martinelli 64)<\/h2>\n

Arsenal can score from set pieces, Arsenal can score from open play! Lewis-Skelly dribbles hard down the middle, drawing a few purple shirts before slipping a pass down the inside-left channel for Martinelli, who opens his body and steers a glorious first-time shot across Oblak and into the bottom-right corner. The Emirates erupts!<\/p>\n

<\/span>What a finish from Gabriel Martinelli<\/span> Photograph: John Walton\/PAShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a016.28 EDT<\/p>\n

63 min:<\/strong> Atletico make a triple change. Koke, Gonzalez and Gimenez are replaced by Naena, Ruggeri and Gallagher.<\/p>\n

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62 min:<\/strong> Simeone slips Llorente into space down the right. Llorente cuts a cross back for Hancko, who from 12 yards powers a header just wide of the top-right corner. Raya planted.<\/p>\n

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60 min:<\/strong> One corner leads to another, and that leads to nothing. Meanwhile the home crowd, who had become a little pensive before the goal, flick to the classic section of their songbook: \u2669\u266c\u266d One-nil to the Ars-e-nal, one-nil to the Ars-e-nal \u2026 \u266c \u266a \u266b<\/em><\/p>\n

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58 min:<\/strong> That\u2019s Arsenal\u2019s ninth set-piece goal of the season. But Atleti nearly cancel it out immediately, Simeone scampering onto Alvarez\u2019s pass down the inside-right and taking a shot from a tight angle that\u2019s deflected out for a corner. The man making that defensive intervention? Gabriel, the main man at both ends right now.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (Gabriel 57)<\/h2>\n

Rice swings the free kick in from the left touchline. Gabriel times his run down the middle, through a crowd of players, and steers a header into the bottom left from six yards. The delivery was so good he couldn\u2019t miss!<\/p>\n

<\/span>Arsenal in set-piece goal shocker!<\/span> Photograph: John Walton\/PAShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a016.19 EDT<\/p>\n

56 min:<\/strong> Llorente flips Martinelli aggressively to the floor out on the left flank. Mikel Arteta not happy. But it\u2019s just a free kick. Everyone lines up on the edge of the Atleti area waiting for Rice to deliver, and \u2026<\/p>\n

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54 min:<\/strong> Zubimendi swivels and flicks a pass down the inside-left channel for Gy\u00f6keres, who extends a leg in the hope of flipping the ball past Oblak. But the keeper throws a classic Peter Schmeichel shape and blocks. Fine play all round.<\/p>\n

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52 min:<\/strong> Up the other end, another penalty claim, as Koke nips in ahead of Lewis-Skelly down the right, feels a slight brush from behind, and goes down hard. The referee\u2019s not falling for the grift.<\/p>\n

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51 min:<\/strong> Gy\u00f6keres wedges a cross in from the right. It hits the hand of Gim\u00e9nez, so a penalty claim is made. But the defender was standing right next to the striker, with his arms and hands tucked into his belly, and he might have been outside the box anyway. So no.<\/p>\n

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50 min:<\/strong> A free kick for Atleti out on the right. Alvarez whips it low to the near post, where Hancko hacks wide right. A couple of moments of danger in quick succession that have quietened the home crowd.<\/p>\n

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Alvarez hits the bar<\/h2>\n

49 min:<\/strong> Alvarez advances down the inside-left channel and curls a glorious effort towards the top right. Raya is beaten all ends up, but the ball pings off the top of the bar and away. A couple of inches lower, and that was one for the showreel.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a016.44 EDT<\/p>\n

47 min:<\/strong> Timber jinks down the right and wins a corner. It\u2019s a fine run, past three defenders. Le Normand one man too many. S\u00f8rloth heads Saka\u2019s corner clear.<\/p>\n

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46 min:<\/strong> Alvarez dribbles into the Arsenal box from the right, and thinks about shooting. He doesn\u2019t, though, and is eventually crowded out. For a second there, an opportunity presented itself for the striker.<\/p>\n

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Atleti get the second half started.<\/strong> No changes.<\/p>\n

<\/span>We\u2019re back underway at the Emirates.<\/span> Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane\/Arsenal FC\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a016.05 EDT<\/p>\n

Half-time entertainment.<\/strong> Your Champions League round-up, folks, to be updated as and when. Already containing some hot-off-the-press news of a good evening for Marcus Rashford.<\/p>\n

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HALF TIME: Arsenal 0-0 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/h2>\n

Arsenal have hit the bar; Atleti have missed an open goal. Neither were exactly gilt-edged chances. Both teams have been battling hard, no quarter given, which augurs well for some second-half entertainment, one way or another.<\/p>\n

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45 min +1:<\/strong> Zubamendi crosses from the right. Martinelli eyebrows over the bar from ten yards.<\/p>\n

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45 min:<\/strong> Alvarez sends the resulting free kick sailing harmlessly wide right. There will be one minute of additional time.<\/p>\n

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44 min:<\/strong> Rice clips Le Normand from behind as the Atleti defender brings down a high ball 30 yards from the Arsenal goal. Having recently clattered Llorente further upfield, he\u2019s slightly fortunate not to go into the book. Another one may test the referee\u2019s patience.<\/p>\n

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42 min:<\/strong> A slight sense of frustration in the crowd now, with Arsenal no longer as dominant as they were during the early exchanges.<\/p>\n

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40 min:<\/strong> Eze and Rice busy themselves down the left flank but Atleti hold their shape and the move peters out.<\/p>\n

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38 min:<\/strong> Zubimendi is booked for his third cynical nibble from behind in as many minutes. That means he\u2019ll be suspended for Arsenal\u2019s next Champions League fixture at Slavia Prague.<\/p>\n

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Martinelli goal disallowed<\/h2>\n

36 min:<\/strong> Saka dribbles into the box from the right. He gets past Gim\u00e9nez with ease and fires a low cross into the six-yard box. Martinelli turns home at the far post, but he\u2019s gone way too early and is clearly offside. Up goes the flag.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Gabriel Martinelli is well offside.<\/span> Photograph: Marc Atkins\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a015.44 EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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