{"id":513184,"date":"2026-04-04T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513184\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:39:07","slug":"southampton-2-1-arsenal-shea-charles-winner-books-wembley-trip-in-fa-cup-upset-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513184\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton 2-1 Arsenal: Shea Charles winner books Wembley trip in FA Cup upset – as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southampton stunned Premier League<\/a> leaders Arsenal<\/a> 2-1 in their FA Cup quarterfinal on Saturday night, booking themselves a trip to Wembley.<\/p>\n

An end-to-end affair saw the hosts take a first half lead through Ross Stewart<\/a>, who slotted in after Ben White<\/a> failed to clear a cross from James Bree<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/a> came on for the visitors in the second 45, and the Sweden international got Arsenal level with 20 minutes to play — but in the 85th minute, Saints sub Shea Charles<\/a> finished a slick move into the bottom corner to seal a cup upset and put them in Sunday’s semifinal draw.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it happened.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta’s side arrived on the south coast in contention to win the treble, leading the Premier League<\/a> and with a Champions League quarterfinal upcoming.<\/p>\n

Several Arsenal players withdrew from international duty before their first club game back, including Eberechi Eze<\/a> and Declan Rice<\/a>, meaning Arteta looked to his wider squad for the cup clash.<\/p>\n

The hosts came into Saturday evening’s tie after already delivering an upset against a Premier League side this term, seeing off Fulham<\/a> in a 1-0 away win.<\/p>\n

Currently seventh in the Championship, Tonda Eckert’s side sit just outside the playoff places in England<\/a>‘s second tier, aiming to return back to the top flight at the first time of asking.<\/p>\n

But they may have written an arguably much bigger story this evening with the win, with the 32,000 strong capacity St. Mary’s Stadium in full voice.<\/p>\n

For Arsenal, it marked two defeats in two games — which halved their trophy ceiling this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton stunned Premier League leaders Arsenal 2-1 in their FA Cup quarterfinal on Saturday night, booking themselves a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513184","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=513184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}