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Kai Havertz, Arsenal’s hero of the evening, expressed his great joy after scoring the decisive goal, emphasizing that the London club had achieved an important result but that the work was not yet done.<\/span><\/p>\n Arsenal came away with a valuable 1-0 victory over hosts Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday evening in the Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Jos\u00e9 Alvalade Stadium, thanks to Havertz’s goal in the second minute of added time.<\/span><\/p>\n Commenting on the winning goal and Gabriel Martinelli’s assist, Havertz told Amazon Prime: \u201cScoring a goal late in the match is always a great feeling, especially in front of our fans. We achieved the expected result, but we still have a lot of work to do next week. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Referring to Martinelli’s assist, he added: \u201cA classy move, this boy has immense talent. As a striker or attacking midfielder, you always wait for those moments, and he orchestrated it perfectly, so all the credit goes to Martinelli. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n Regarding the progress of the match, the German star explained: \u201cThe match was open, but I think we controlled it well most of the time. Football is played on moments like this. Overall, we played a very good match and we can be proud of ourselves. Now we will rest to come back strong on Saturday. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n As for overcoming the bad patch of recent results, Havertz said: \u201cIt’s definitely a big turning point for us, because we lost our last two games. So we wanted to reverse the trend today, and we succeeded. We are united as a group, and we still have a lot to offer this season. There are seven weeks left, we can win big titles and we will fight for it. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n Havertz concluded his remarks by praising the team’s goalie, David Raya, saying, \u201cHe’s incredible. I think he is still underestimated in the football world, but for me he has been the best goalkeeper in the world for two seasons. He is extraordinary, he has saved us many times and we are very happy to have him among us. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kai Havertz, Arsenal’s hero of the evening, expressed his great joy after scoring the decisive goal, emphasizing that the London club had achieved an important result but that the work was not yet done. Arsenal came away with a valuable 1-0 victory over hosts Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday evening in the Champions League quarter-final first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","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\/1662","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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}