{"id":217490,"date":"2025-10-22T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217490\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:01:09","slug":"champions-league-reaction-arsenal-manchester-city-newcastle-win-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217490\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League reaction: Arsenal, Manchester City, Newcastle win in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Set-pieces deliver againpublished at 08:57 BST<\/p>\n

08:57 BST<\/p>\n

Arsenal 4-0 Atletico Madrid<\/p>\n

\"\"Alex Howell
BBC Sport Arsenal reporter at Emirates Stadium<\/p>\n

\"ArsenalImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Arsenal’s threat from set-pieces is well known, but the Gunners have gone to another level this season.<\/p>\n

Both Liverpool manager Arne Slot and Fulham boss Marco Silva have mentioned the Gunners’ ability in those situations recently, with a goal from a corner making the difference in Arsenal’s win over the Cottagers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta’s team boast excellent delivery from both sides of the pitch with Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka consistently putting the ball in good areas for their team-mates to attack.<\/p>\n

Since Rice’s debut for Arsenal in August 2023, only Inter Milan’s Hakan Calhanoglu (11) has more assists from dead balls in all competitions across Europe’s big five leagues than the England international (10).<\/p>\n

It was a set-piece and a goal from Gabriel that saw Arsenal get a crucial win over Newcastle in the Premier League last month, and it was the defender again who opened the scoring against Atletico when this match was crying out for a spark.<\/p>\n

Arsenal now have 10 goals from set-pieces this season, excluding penalties, and as they hope to compete for trophies in multiple competitions this season, their potency from those opportunities is going to be key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Set-pieces deliver againpublished at 08:57 BST 08:57 BST Arsenal 4-0 Atletico Madrid Alex HowellBBC Sport Arsenal reporter at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-217490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}