{"id":584670,"date":"2026-08-06T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584670\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:20:10","slug":"arsenal-fall-to-friendly-defeat-to-real-betis-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584670\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal fall to friendly defeat to Real Betis in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal were punished for defensive errors as they slipped to a 3-1 friendly defeat to Real Betis at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.<\/p>\n

The Premier League champions fell behind to first-half goals from Rodrigo Riquelme and Nelson Deossa and although the Gunners hit back through Piero Hincapie, Pablo Fornals struck a third for Betis before the break.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta named an unchanged line-up after his side won Saturday’s opening friendly match 4-1 in Spain against Girona, but they fell behind in the ninth minute when goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga failed to make contact with a corner and Riquelme lashed home at the back post.<\/p>\n

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\nRodrigo Riquelme, centre, celebrates with teammates Facundo Bernal, left, and Marc Bartra after scoring his side’s first goal<\/p>\n

Christos Tzolis failed to take advantage for Arsenal when Betis goalkeeper Alvaro Valles passed the ball straight to the Gunners\u2019 summer signing before Deossa put the visitors 2-0 up with a 30-yard thunderbolt into the top corner.<\/p>\n

Arsenal reduced the deficit when Valles misjudged a corner from Tzolis for Hincapie to head home, but Betis restored their two-goal advantage before the break as former West Ham midfielder Fornals swept the ball beyond a stationary Kepa following Kai Havertz\u2019s misplaced pass.<\/p>\n

Arteta made wholesale changes at half-time, with 16-year-old Marli Salmon appearing at centre-half, and neither side created a clear-cut scoring chance as the game lost its momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal were punished for defensive errors as they slipped to a 3-1 friendly defeat to Real Betis at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-584670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584670","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=584670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}