{"id":967,"date":"2026-04-07T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialsport.online\/?p=967"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:12:17","slug":"gabriel-to-hit-250-gunners-games-in-lisbon-statistics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel to hit 250 Gunners games in Lisbon | Statistics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Having been named in our starting line-up for tonight&#8217;s Champions League game at Sporting Lisbon, Gabriel will reach 250 appearances for the club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Brazilian centre-back made his Gunners bow in September 2020 against Fulham not long after signing from Lille, and he would mark the occasion with a debut goal &#8211; one of 24 he has netted in red and white. 20 of those have come in the Premier League, and only Laurent Koscielny (22) has netted more for us as a defender.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Big Gabi\u2019s 250 consists of 185 Premier League games, plus another 39 in Europe, split between 26 in the Champions League (including tonight) and 13 in the Europa League. He has played 17 times in the League Cup, while seven more appearances have come in the FA Cup. He also featured in our 2023 Community Shield success.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">237 of those games have been as a starter, and while boasting an impressive near-one-in-10 goal ratio, he has also chipped in with 10 assists &#8211; half of which have come this season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gabi is the 76th player to hit the 250 mark for the club, and the second Brazilian, with only his current teammate for club and country, Gabriel Martinelli, above him on 268. Little Gabi hit the 250 milestone back in January in our League Cup semi-final win at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Only Bukayo Saka with 305 appearances has more Gunners games in the current squad than the pair.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"d6d48b67-5269-4690-a934-e0d39adbf569\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"126185\" about=\"\/news\/preview-sporting-cp-v-arsenal-1\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title\" title=\"Preview: Sporting CP v Arsenal\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Preview: Sporting CP v Arsenal <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been named in our starting line-up for tonight&#8217;s Champions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}