PSG are in the driver\u2019s seat! The Parisians grabbed a huge 1-0 win over Arsenal on Tuesday night in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals, thanks to an early strike from Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It took just four minutes<\/strong> for Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 to light it up at the Emirates, finishing off a brilliant 26-pass move set up by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. Arsenal\u2019s defense was left flat-footed\u2014and just like that, PSG had the advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was the fastest goal Arsenal had conceded in the Champions League since 2016. And for Demb\u00e9l\u00e9? Just another day at the office\u201445 goal contributions in 45 matches this season.<\/strong> Crazy numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arsenal fought back after a rough first half. Mikel Merino thought he had leveled it up around the 50th minute, but VAR stepped in and ruled him offside. PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was a wall, denying Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard to keep the clean sheet alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n History was made, too. Myles Lewis-Skelly became the youngest English player ever to start a Champions League semifinal at 18 years and 215 days<\/strong>, only for Ethan Nwaneri to break that record minutes later at 18 years and 39 days.<\/strong> Arsenal\u2019s future is bright\u2014even if tonight wasn\u2019t their night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second leg is set for May 6<\/strong> at Parc des Princes. PSG have the edge, but Luis Enrique isn\u2019t taking anything for granted: “Nothing\u2019s done yet. Arsenal can turn this around anytime.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Mikel Arteta is still dreaming big: “We need something special in Paris\u2014and we can do it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whoever comes out on top will book a spot in the final at the Allianz Arena in Munich on May 31<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PSG are in the driver\u2019s seat! The Parisians grabbed a huge 1-0 win over Arsenal on Tuesday night in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals, thanks to an early strike from Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9. It took just four minutes for Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 to light it up at the Emirates, finishing off a brilliant 26-pass move […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":528084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"pays":[93],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football-news-benews-sport","8":"pays-europe"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528147,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528146\/revisions\/528147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528146"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528146"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n