{"id":433354,"date":"2026-05-05T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:26:10","slug":"miguel-delaney-diego-simeone-tries-to-get-inside-arsenals-heads-and-raise-the-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433354\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Delaney: Diego Simeone tries to get inside Arsenal\u2019s heads and raise the stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">These second legs can take on a life of their own, which is much why the Champions League semi-finals have served up the highest level of club football over the past decade\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone at the Emirates last night ahead of tonight's clash with Arsenal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages_2274000928.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone at the Emirates last night ahead of tonight&#8217;s clash with Arsenal<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While Diego Simeone is trying to ratchet up a lot of noise around Arsenal, Mikel Arteta has been quietly repeating the same message over the past few days. He has reminded his players they have a home game to get to a Champions League final. The biggest fixture of their club careers, from the most familiar environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to play this game at home,\u201d Viktor Gyokeres said of the second leg. \u201cWe know what\u2019s at stake, and of course, we have an amazing opportunity.\u201d You might have a different opponent, though. If the setting sounds so enticingly simple, Simeone has been doing his best to complicate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These second legs can take on a life of their own, which is much why the Champions League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15133,15013,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-433354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-champions-league","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}