{"id":18944,"date":"2025-09-18T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:43:57","slug":"martinelli-reveals-he-told-fellow-subs-his-plan-to-beat-athletic-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/martinelli-reveals-he-told-fellow-subs-his-plan-to-beat-athletic-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinelli reveals he told fellow subs his plan to beat Athletic Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Gabriel Martinelli has revealed he told his team-mates his plan to break down Athletic Club&#8217;s defence moments before stepping onto the pitch in Arsenal&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c4g2e0dlx3jt?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-0 Champions League win<\/a>&nbsp;over the Spanish side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Brazilian winger says he had spotted the gaps behind the defence while watching from the subs bench and already had a plan to exploit them for when he was introduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And that is exactly what happened, latching onto a pass from fellow substitute Leandro Trossard to score just 36 seconds after arriving on the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I told the guys on the bench there was space in behind,&#8221; Martinelli said. &#8220;When I came on, I just tried to get in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I wanted to see where I could find the space. Leo saw me, it was a great ball from him, and I just tried to put the ball in the net.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">With just a few minutes remaining, Martinelli returned the favour for Trossard to seal the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;For the second goal, I wanted to go past my man and look to find someone in the box, and I knew they were tired, too. I was able to find Leo, and he did the rest.&#8221; Martinelli added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;They were playing at home, so they did well too, but I thought we were clinical and deserved to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;When you play for Arsenal, you go to win every game, so it is really good to start the campaign with the victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Martinelli has revealed he told his team-mates his plan to break down Athletic Club&#8217;s defence moments before stepping onto the pitch in Arsenal&#8217;s&nbsp;2-0 Champions League win&nbsp;over the Spanish side. The Brazilian winger says he had spotted the gaps behind the defence while watching from the subs bench and already had a plan to exploit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-42-e1758181388401.png?fit=500%2C279&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18946,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions\/18946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}