{"id":454379,"date":"2023-08-12T01:12:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454379"},"modified":"2023-08-12T01:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:12:23","slug":"manchester-city-begin-their-title-defense-with-clincical-3-0-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/manchester-city-begin-their-title-defense-with-clincical-3-0-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City begin their title defense with clincical 3-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City began their title defense with a comfortable 3-0 win over Burnley on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland opened the scoring as early as the 4th minute as the Norwegian picked up a fine cross from Rodri inside the penalty box.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL-TIME | A win on the road to begin 2023\/24 \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe3 0-3 \u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ManCity<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bluebeetle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bluebeetle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ojxIOLGko\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3ojxIOLGko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1690106156084088832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s top goal-scorer was at it again in the 36th minute, giving City a commanding 2-0 lead before the interval.<\/p>\n<p>The second half was more or less a procession with the defending champions pacing themselves and establishing full control over the game.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri wrapped up the final scoreline in the 75th minute as he collected a fortunate deflection off Nathan Ake for 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>For Burnley, who clinched the Championship last season with a record-breaking 101 points, it was a reality check as manager Vincent Kompany faced his old club.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the perfect start for Pep Guardiola&#8217;s men, who will aim to become the first team in English football history to win 4 League titles in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City began their title defense with a comfortable 3-0 win over Burnley on Friday night. Erling Haaland opened the scoring as early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":454421,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18307,17223,17183,20893],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[20894,18121,16461,7120],"acf":{"announce":"The Citizens picked up where they left off last campaign","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\/454379"}],"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=454379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454379"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454379"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}