{"id":459330,"date":"2023-09-16T20:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459330"},"modified":"2023-09-16T20:38:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:38:03","slug":"man-city-continue-their-perfect-start-after-early-scare-vs-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-continue-their-perfect-start-after-early-scare-vs-west-ham\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City continue their perfect start after early scare vs West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defeated West Ham United 3-1 to return to the top of the Premier League and to maintain their perfect start of the 2023-24 campaign on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL-TIME | 5\ufe0f\u20e3 wins from 5\ufe0f\u20e3 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@premierleague<\/a>! \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>\u2692\ufe0f 1-3 \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\/okx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@okx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5d87teAAfQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5d87teAAfQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1703075158460699024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The defending champions were the dominant force all along, but they were left stunned, when Jamie Ward-Prowse gave the host a 1-0 lead in the first half against the run of play.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pep Guardiola&#8217;s men were quick to respond, as they equalized with only 43 seconds of play at the start of the second half through Doku.<\/p>\n<p>Bernando Silva put the Citizens in front with quarter of an hour to spare, before Erling Haaland secured the victory towards the end with his 6th goal in 5 matches.<\/p>\n<p>City restore their two-point lead over Liverpool at the top of the table after Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s side beat Wolves in the early kick-off, while West Ham drop to sixth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defeated West Ham United 3-1 to return to the top of the Premier League and to maintain their perfect start of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":459331,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,19203],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18121,19204],"acf":{"announce":"The Citizens came from behind to win on Guardiola's return","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\/459330"}],"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=459330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459332,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459330\/revisions\/459332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459330"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459330"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}