{"id":395445,"date":"2023-01-05T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T22:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395445"},"modified":"2023-01-05T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T22:22:02","slug":"man-city-close-gap-at-top-in-premier-league-to-five-points","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-close-gap-at-top-in-premier-league-to-five-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City close gap at top in Premier League to five points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez climbed off the bench to fire Manchester City to a 1-0 win at Chelsea on Thursday and cut the deficit to Premier League leaders Arsenal back to five points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">FINAL | El 2023 comienza con una victoria \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd81 0-1 \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MCFCEspa%C3%B1ol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MCFCEspa\u00f1ol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A5yQ1LsoI9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/A5yQ1LsoI9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCityES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCityES\/status\/1611118919569346563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>City, held to a draw by lowly Everton on New Year&#8217;s Eve, were facing more frustration against an injury-hit yet enterprising Chelsea side at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>But less than three minutes after coming on as substitutes with an hour gone, Jack Grealish fed Mahrez with an inch-perfect assist for a tap-in at the far post, which secured City&#8217;s third straight home victory.<\/p>\n<p>The winner\u00a0also inflicted another defeat on Chelsea, still looking unconvincing under Graham Potter, but who gave City plenty of problems, particularly in the first half despite a double injury blow.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal top the standings with 44 points, followed by Man City on 39. Chelsea are 10th with 25 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues last tasted victory against Pep Guardiola\u2019s men in the UEFA Champions League Final in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez climbed off the bench to fire Manchester City to a 1-0 win at Chelsea on Thursday and cut the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395446,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,17185,17183,17184],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Substitute Riyad Mahrez scored the only goal in the 1-0 win at Chelsea","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395445"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395445"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}