{"id":517659,"date":"2026-03-11T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517659\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:50:09","slug":"bayer-leverkusen-1-1-arsenal-kai-havertz-scores-late-penalty-leveller-for-gunners-on-return-to-former-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517659\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 Arsenal: Kai Havertz scores late penalty leveller for Gunners on return to former club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kai Havertz scored a late penalty as Arsenal came from behind to draw with Bayer Leverkusen in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie at the BayArena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The German forward who spent 10 years at Leverkusen before moving to Chelsea for \u00a371m in 2020, slotted the ball past Janis Blaswich in the 89th minute after Noni Madueke had been brought down by Malik Tillman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal had gone behind for the first time in the competition this season when Robert Andrich headed in a well-worked Alex Grimaldo corner just one minute into the second half. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kai Havertz scored a late penalty as Arsenal came from behind to draw with Bayer Leverkusen in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-517659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}