{"id":22640,"date":"2026-01-20T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/inter-milan-coach-praise-arsenal-ahead-of-european-champions-league-match\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:34","slug":"inter-milan-coach-praise-arsenal-ahead-of-european-champions-league-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/inter-milan-coach-praise-arsenal-ahead-of-european-champions-league-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Milan coach praise Arsenal ahead of European Champions league match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Inter Milan coach, Cristian Chivu, has praised competition leaders, Arsenal, ahead of their European Champions league match at the San Siro stadium in Milan this evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Italians will aim to bounce back from two successive defeats in Europe, when they host the Gunners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Eighteen other clubs will be in action in the league phase of the European competition tonight, including holders, Paris Saints Germain and record-15-time champions, Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal currently boasts first place in both the Premier League and Champions League&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But Inter will be helped by playing at home, at the San\u00a0Siro\u00a0stadium in Milan.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian team is currently sixth in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Victory would represent a significant step towards direct qualification for the next phase, avoiding the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Meanwhile, Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, says his side can expect another difficult encounter away to Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22641,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-22640","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Cristian Chivu, has praised competition leaders, Arsenal","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25867,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22640\/revisions\/25867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}