{"id":114230,"date":"2026-03-17T23:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/eze-shines-arsenal-defeats-leverkusen-and-advances-in-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:49:05","slug":"eze-shines-arsenal-defeats-leverkusen-and-advances-in-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/eze-shines-arsenal-defeats-leverkusen-and-advances-in-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Eze shines: Arsenal defeats Leverkusen and advances in Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arteta Praises Eberechi Eze’s Magic After Arsenal Victory<\/h2>\n\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta praised Eberechi Eze’s ability to create “magical moments” after the victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League. Arteta highlighted Eze’s impressive goal, which demonstrated why they signed him for the club.\n\nArsenal beat Leverkusen 2-0 in the match, and 3-1 on aggregate, securing their place in the quarter-finals against Sporting CP. Eze opened the scoring with a spectacular goal in the 36th minute, followed by another great goal from Declan Rice in the second half.\n\nIt was an almost perfect night for Arsenal, with the focus on Eze, who joined the club in August for \u00a367.5 million. So far, he has scored nine goals and six assists in 43 appearances this season.\n\nOn Tuesday night, Eze scored his first Champions League goal with a stunning shot. After Arsenal constantly pressured Leverkusen’s goal, Eze picked up the ball on the edge of the area, set himself, and connected with a half-volley to give Arsenal the lead.\n\n\n

We started the match very well. Their goalkeeper kept his team in the game and we needed a magical moment from Ebs.<\/p>Mikel Arteta<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"Eberechi<\/figure>\n\n\nArteta attributes Eze’s good form to the growing chemistry and understanding with his teammates, as well as Eze’s better understanding of the game by the staff and players.\n\n\n

When you start a good game and good actions that win the match, that raises your confidence and that’s what every player needs.<\/p>Mikel Arteta<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nArteta also praised Rice’s “immense” performance, who has been dealing with a relentless match schedule as Arsenal competes in four competitions.\n\nRice commented that there are not many players who can strike the ball like Eze, and that they need to give him the ball more.\n\nEze, for his part, is already focused on the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City, where Arsenal will seek to end their six-year title drought.\n\n\n

We know that at this stage, no matter who you face, it’s going to be tough and difficult. But we have a match on Sunday, so it will be good to prepare ourselves.<\/p>Eberechi Eze<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe goal of Arsenal is to win trophies, and they will continue striving to achieve it.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arteta Praises Eberechi Eze’s Magic After Arsenal Victory Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta praised Eberechi Eze’s ability to create “magical moments” after the victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League. Arteta highlighted Eze’s impressive goal, which demonstrated why they signed him for the club. Arsenal beat Leverkusen 2-0 in the match, and 3-1 on aggregate, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,789,270,7157],"class_list":{"0":"post-114230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-arteta","10":"tag-champions-league","11":"tag-eberechi-eze"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}