{"id":865873,"date":"2026-04-01T23:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/865873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:37:21","slug":"chelsea-1-0-arsenal-gunners-progress-to-uwcl-semifinals-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/865873\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea 1-0 Arsenal: Gunners progress to UWCL semifinals &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f6c1de4b-73c3-ba7f-207e-ec5927d015c5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=19970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> beat <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b01601fc-ede7-63f6-b94b-f08b2f98b476\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=19973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a> at Stamford Bridge but it wasn&#8217;t enough to enter the semifinals with the Gunners progressing 3-2 on aggregate<\/p>\n<p>Disney+ becomes new home of Women&#8217;s Champions League in Europe<img decoding=\"async\" data-lazyload=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/r1497653_1296x729_16-9.jpg\" class=\"round lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/45278453\/disney+-becomes-new-home-women-champions-league-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney+ will be the only place football fans can watch all 75 matches live each season.<\/a> Visit the Disney+ website to get access.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners come into the second leg with a healthy 3-1 lead, with goals from <a data-player-guid=\"74d78ee0-bf84-8914-7b6f-ad6f42601835\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/240274\/stina-blackstenius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stina Blackstenius<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"c9509ef5-5d96-8313-43e5-02a2cf71dd0c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/282993\/chloe-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chloe Kelly<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"4d853184-f7e7-36a9-a3bd-a56637c20fb8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/263683\/alessia-russo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alessia Russo<\/a> in the first leg. However, <a data-player-guid=\"2e9eabcb-2aaf-154d-486a-3625da84c2e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/294253\/lauren-james\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren James<\/a>&#8216; 30-yard stunner at the Emirates Stadium means this tie remains alive.<\/p>\n<p>It was an evenly fought contest at the Bridge that gradually heightened in intensity. The Gunners defended bravely as Chelsea pushed hard for a breakthrough and by the time it came through <a data-player-guid=\"393d8538-54b7-3ee5-8bc3-caaf79407218\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/314382\/sjoeke-nusken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sjoeke N\u00fcsken<\/a>, it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>There was late drama, with Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor being sent off for her protesations over <a data-player-guid=\"30b85bb6-2b79-935d-0259-a94cc34fb27e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/219079\/katie-mccabe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie McCabe<\/a>&#8216;s blatant hair-pull on <a data-player-guid=\"314f9fb8-4743-3fb5-bae0-413e5f1576f5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/351658\/alyssa-thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alyssa Thompson<\/a>. The Arsenal defender grabbed Thompson&#8217;s ponytail as she sped away from her and was lucky to remain on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>It was an absurd yet fittingly dramatic end fo a fascinating quarterfinal tie between these two sides.<\/p>\n<p>Re-live the second leg below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea beat Arsenal at Stamford Bridge but it wasn&#8217;t enough to enter the semifinals with the Gunners progressing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-865873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116332086090124695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}