{"id":428013,"date":"2026-05-06T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428013\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:58:14","slug":"wesley-sneijder-says-uefa-should-have-cancelled-arsenals-champions-league-decider-vs-atletico-madrid-before-half-time-claims-gunners-dont-have-any-top-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Sneijder says UEFA should have CANCELLED Arsenal&#8217;s Champions League decider vs Atletico Madrid before half-time &#038; claims Gunners &#8216;don&#8217;t have any top players&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">While Sneijder was busy questioning the quality of the match, Atleti boss Diego Simeone took a more humble approach to his side&#8217;s exit. Despite a controversial moment where his team believed they should have been awarded a penalty, the Argentine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/diego-simeone-hails-arsenal-s-incredible-power-as-atletico-madrid-boss-refuses-to-make-excuses-for-champions-league-exit\/blt3258aff73ce9c6be\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">refused to make excuses <\/a>and instead focused on the strength of the Premier League leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">&#8220;If we were eliminated, it&#8217;s because our opponent deserved to advance. They were clinical in the first half and earned their place. But what I feel is tranquillity, peace. The team gave everything they had,&#8221; Simeone said. &#8220;We came to compete against an incredibly powerful team, and with our own strengths, we fought as hard as we could. I&#8217;m grateful to our fans, our players, and I&#8217;m proud to be where I am. I said during preseason at the stadium that we were going to compete, and we did. Unfortunately, we didn&#8217;t win anything, that&#8217;s true, but we reached places that aren&#8217;t easy to reach.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Sneijder was busy questioning the quality of the match, Atleti boss Diego Simeone took a more humble&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4026,201009,111144,14532,200933,4488,85,46,1821,105,201008],"class_list":["post-428013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-vs-atletico-madrid","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bayern-munich-vs-paris-saint-germain","tag-champions-league","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-sports","tag-w-sneijder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}