{"id":2009,"date":"2026-03-22T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:13:29","slug":"gabriel-ready-for-carabao-cup-final-battle-with-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel ready for Carabao Cup final \u2018battle\u2019 with Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Gabriel Maghalaes has said he is ready to embrace another battle with Erling Haaland in the Carabao Cup final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal face Manchester City in the League Cup decider at Wembley this afternoon. One of the pivotal duels in the clash will see Gabriel come up against Haaland, as arguably the Premier League\u2019s top centre-back takes on the league\u2019s leading goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p>There is previous between the pair, with past clashes having seen some needle between them.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Haaland memorably threw the ball at the back of Gabriel\u2019s head when celebrating a goal scored by Manchester City. In the return fixture at Emirates Stadium, Gabriel celebrated in Haaland\u2019s face when the Gunners scored on route to a big 5-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the latest match-up, Gabriel praised Haaland but insisted he\u2019s ready to battle again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoy every game, every striker. It is my job, so I like to battle,\u201d he told The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he is a top player and, of course, I think he likes to play against me as well. I think it\u2019s fun. We enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Arsenal vs Manchester City \u2013 Carabao Cup final Combined XI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Premier League clubs who have won a major trophy more recently than Arsenal<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook | Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Maghalaes has said he is ready to embrace another battle with Erling Haaland in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}