{"id":466695,"date":"2023-10-22T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466695"},"modified":"2023-10-22T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:52:35","slug":"aston-villa-rout-west-ham-4-1-to-keep-in-touch-with-the-leaders","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/aston-villa-rout-west-ham-4-1-to-keep-in-touch-with-the-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa rout West Ham 4-1 to keep in touch with the leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa continue their fine of form with a comfortable 4-1 win over West Ham to move within 2 points of league leaders Manchester City on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aston Villa&#39;s 11th consecutive Premier League win at Villa Park \ud83c\udff0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVLWHU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AVLWHU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KnFwI3aGyK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KnFwI3aGyK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1716145178732364081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The home side opened the scoring through Douglas Luiz in the 30th minutes. The Brazilian doubled Villa&#8217;s lead early on in the second after a penalty kick, which he calmly put past West Ham&#8217;s goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers showed signs of resistance as they reduced the deficit thanks to a fine finish from Jarrod Bowen.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for them it was short-lived, as Villa quickly restored the 2 goal cushion through in-form striker Ollie Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>A last minute strike from substitute Leon Bailey rounded off the final scoreline of 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Unai Emeri&#8217;s men now sit 5th in the league with 19 points, but trail leaders Manchester City by only 2 points in what proves to be a highly competitive season at the front with the top 4 separated by only a single point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa continue their fine of form with a comfortable 4-1 win over West Ham to move within 2 points of league leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":466697,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18818,19203],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18819,19204],"acf":{"announce":"Unai Emery's men continue their fine start of the season","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\/466695"}],"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=466695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466698,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466695\/revisions\/466698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466695"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466695"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}