{"id":1658,"date":"2026-04-07T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:38:07","slug":"arsenal-substitutes-the-most-successful-in-europe-and-rice-equals-artetas-all-time-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal substitutes, the most successful in Europe&#8230; and Rice equals Arteta&#8217;s all-time record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\">Impressive stats lift Arsenal to valuable Champions League victory<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Arsenal put one foot in the semi-finals of the Champions League after winning 1-0 at Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday evening in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Arsenal will wait until the second leg, which takes place at the Emirates Stadium on April 15, to seal the fate of the confrontation. The winner will face the winner of the Spanish clash between Barcelona and Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid in the semi-final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Opta statistics, Declan Rice recovered the ball 13 times against Sporting Lisbon; This is the best tally for an Arsenal midfielder in a Champions League knockout match since Mikel Arteta (the team&#8217;s current manager) did it against Bayern Munich in February 2013 (also 13 times).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fco-fc-video-player\" aria-label=\"Video player\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>If we consider the winning goal scored by Kai Havertz on an assist from Gabriel Martinelli, it is Arsenal&#8217;s fourth goal in the Champions League this season (goal or assist) achieved by substitutes; this is the best total for a team in a single season in the history of the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Arsenal substitutes have contributed to 38 goals in all competitions this season (24 goals and 14 assists), more than any other team in Europe&#8217;s five major leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressive stats lift Arsenal to valuable Champions League victory Arsenal put one foot in the semi-finals of the Champions League after winning 1-0 at Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday evening in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Arsenal will wait until the second leg, which takes place at the Emirates Stadium on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}