{"id":23282,"date":"2026-02-04T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/arsenal-beat-chelsea-1-0-to-reach-league-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:07","slug":"arsenal-beat-chelsea-1-0-to-reach-league-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/arsenal-beat-chelsea-1-0-to-reach-league-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 to reach League Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Arsenal booked their spot in the League Cup final by beating Chelsea 1-0 at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday thanks to an injury-time goal by former Blues attacker Kai Havertz, sealing an aggregate 4-2 win over their London rivals.<\/div>\n<div>\nAfter a cagey first hour of the semi-final second leg, with each goalkeeper making only one save, Chelsea coach Liam Rosenior switched to a more attacking formation by bringing Cole Palmer and Brazil winger Estevao off the bench.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They were followed by Alejandro Garnacho, scorer of both Chelsea\u2019s goals in Arsenal&#8217;s 3-2 first-leg win at Stamford Bridge as the visitors went in search of the goal they needed to level the aggregate score.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But Mikel Arteta&#8217;s men held out against the pressure before Havertz scored the only goal of the game in a breakaway move in the dying seconds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In their first League Cup final since 2018, the Premier League leaders will face either Manchester City or Newcastle United who play their semi-final second leg on Wednesday with City 2-0 ahead from the first leg.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21982,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23282","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Chelsea coach Liam Rosenior switched to a more attacking formation by bringing Cole Palmer and Brazil winger Estevao off the bench.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Chelsea coach Liam Rosenior switched to a more attacking formation by bringing Cole Palmer and Brazil winger Estevao off the bench.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23282","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\/23282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26299,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23282\/revisions\/26299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}