{"id":594,"date":"2026-03-18T19:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=594"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:23:36","slug":"rice-says-arsenal-confident-ahead-of-carabao-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Rice says Arsenal confident ahead of Carabao Cup final"},"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>Declan Rice has said Arsenal are confident of ending the club\u2019s trophy drought in this weekend\u2019s Carabao Cup final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal take on Manchester City at Wembley for the first silverware of the campaign on Sunday. The Gunners are into a major cup final for the first time since winning the 2020 FA Cup and are aiming to end a six-year silverware drought.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta\u2019s team booked their place in the Champions League quarter-finals with a win over Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday, to continue their pursuit of an unprecedented quadruple.<\/p>\n<p>Following that win, Rice told CBS Sports that attention has already turned to Sunday\u2019s showdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be the start of something. It\u2019s the first trophy that\u2019s up for grabs. If you win that, the momentum after that that takes you forward is massive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunday\u2019s going to be a great game against them. It comes down to how much you want it. How much do you want it on Sunday? How much do you want to win a trophy with this team and for these fans?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, the lads are already talking about it. We\u2019re excited. We\u2019re ready. Any game of football we go into we believe we can win, so we\u2019ll be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Sporting become fifth team in UCL history to overturn three-goal deficit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0When Fulham did the impossible: Recalling their unforgettable comeback against Juventus<\/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>Declan Rice has said Arsenal are confident of ending the club\u2019s trophy drought in this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","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\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}