{"id":346,"date":"2026-03-18T07:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=346"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:38:23","slug":"player-ratings-arsenal-2-0-bayer-leverkusen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Player ratings: Arsenal 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_69\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Arsenal advanced to the Champions League quarter-final with a comfortable second-leg victory over Bayer Leverkusen at The Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners were in control throughout, but found the breakthrough when Ebere Eze scored a screamer before half-time to give Arsenal the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Declan Rice scored another great goal in the second half to put the tie beyond doubt. It was a stress-free evening and that was needed given the emotional effort involved in the Everton game last weekend and the cup final to come on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><em>Rate the players below and see the fan averages, and scroll down to see my ratings. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how I rated the players:<\/p>\n<p>David Raya \u2013 7<\/p>\n<p>Ben White \u2013 6<\/p>\n<p>William Saliba \u2013 7<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel \u2013 8<\/p>\n<p>Piero Hincapi\u00e9 \u2013 8<\/p>\n<p>Martin Zubimendi \u2013 6<\/p>\n<p>Declan Rice \u2013 9<\/p>\n<p>King&#8217;s Mercy \u2013 9<\/p>\n<p>Bukayo Saka \u2013 7<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Gyokeres &#8211; 7<\/p>\n<p>Leandro Trossard \u2013 6<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Man of the match<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">: Eze and Rice. I\u2019m going to share the man of the match award between the two. Both scored great, important goals and performed exceptionally in their all-around game. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal advanced to the Champions League quarter-final with a comfortable second-leg victory over Bayer Leverkusen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","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\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}