{"id":474323,"date":"2023-12-28T18:39:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T22:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474323"},"modified":"2023-12-28T18:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T22:46:24","slug":"west-ham-trips-arsenal-for-the-top-spot-with-2-0-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/west-ham-trips-arsenal-for-the-top-spot-with-2-0-win\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham trips Arsenal for the top spot with 2-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning upset, West Ham dealt a blow to Arsenal&#8217;s title aspirations by securing their third consecutive Premier League victory, beating their local rivals 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham displayed ruthlessness, converting two out of three shots on target, while Arsenal squandered numerous opportunities, missing a chance to claim the top spot in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Soucek capitalized on Jarrod Bowen&#8217;s cutback to fire in a goal during the first half. Although there were doubts about the ball potentially going out of play in the build-up, the video assistant referee found insufficient evidence to overturn the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Former Arsenal center-back Konstantinos Mavropanos extended West Ham&#8217;s lead with an expertly headed goal from a corner in the 55th minute. Despite Arsenal&#8217;s possession and pressure, they failed to find a response.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Konstantinos Mavropanos refused to celebrate after scoring against his former club Arsenal \ud83d\ude45\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l1q7oyyBz4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/l1q7oyyBz4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1740489263337378038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal&#8217;s night took a dismal turn when Declan Rice conceded a penalty in the final minute of injury time. However, Said Benrahma&#8217;s attempt was saved by David Raya, preventing further damage.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome positions Mikel Arteta&#8217;s Gunners in second place, trailing league leaders Liverpool by two points. Meanwhile, West Ham concludes the year with 33 points, marking their highest total at the halfway stage of a Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning upset, West Ham dealt a blow to Arsenal&#8217;s title aspirations by securing their third consecutive Premier League victory, beating their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":474324,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,16862],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17884,366],"acf":{"announce":"The Gunners are now two points behind Liverpool","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\/474323"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474326,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474323\/revisions\/474326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474323"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474323"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}