{"id":412673,"date":"2023-02-15T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412673"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:41:04","slug":"man-city-beat-arsenal-to-go-top","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-beat-arsenal-to-go-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruthless Man City beat Arsenal to go top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Champions Manchester City flexed their muscles in the second half to beat biggest title rivals Arsenal 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday and knock them off the top of the English Premier League on goal difference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL-TIME | TOP OF THE LEAGUE!!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 1-3 \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ManCity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iDIMhwi58W\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iDIMhwi58W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1625970334817026065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">The result left the Citizens and the Gunners, who have a game in hand, level on 51 points, five more than third-placed Manchester United and 10 ahead of Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal won only one point in their last three matches.<\/p>\n<p>Takehiro Tomiyasu&#8217;s poor backpass allowed Kevin de Bruyne to loft a finish over Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale after 24 minutes but the Gunners deservedly drew level three minutes before half-time, when Bukayo Saka scoring from the spot after City goalkeeper Ederson fouled Eddie Nketiah.<\/p>\n<p>In the 71st minute City took advantage of a sloppy Gabriel pass to send Erling Haaland in. The striker finds Ilkay Gundogan to his right, who sets up Jack Grealish for the final finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian ace Haaland made it 3-1 with his 26th goal in the Premier League this season, slamming home from close range after fine work from Gundogan and then De Bruyne, who recorded his record 12th assist.<\/p>\n<p>City returned to the top of the Premier League for the first time since November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champions Manchester City flexed their muscles in the second half to beat biggest title rivals Arsenal 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412676,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,17223,17185,16866,17183],"news_category":[14235,136],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Erling Haaland scored his 26th goal this league season, Kevin de Bruyne with 12th assist","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\/412673"}],"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=412673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412673"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412673"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}