{"id":474509,"date":"2023-12-30T13:07:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474509"},"modified":"2023-12-30T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T17:26:42","slug":"easy-2-0-win-gives-man-city-3-points-against-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/easy-2-0-win-gives-man-city-3-points-against-sheffield\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy 2-0 win gives Man City 3 points against Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City cruised to comfortable 2-0 win over Sheffield United in Matchday 20 of the Premier League on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team were clearly the better side and faced to difficulties in dispatching last-placed Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>Early goal from Rodri put the hosts in front and pretty much set the tone for the entire game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL-TIME | Ending the year with +3! \ud83d\ude4c\ud83e\ude75<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\ude75 2-0 \u2694\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\/qOvvZ1rv2e\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qOvvZ1rv2e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1741140220240613858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Julian Alvarez rounded off the final scoreline with precise finish in the second half to put the game beyond the Blades.<\/p>\n<p>It is City&#8217;s second straight win after sloppy run of form and the defending champions fully cement their place in the title race. They leapfrog Arsenal to go third with 40 points, 2 adrift from League leaders Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield, meanwhile, remain rock bottom with only 9 points, 7 off from salvation and the Blades face a challenging second half of the season if they wish to remain in the top flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City cruised to comfortable 2-0 win over Sheffield United in Matchday 20 of the Premier League on Saturday. Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":474510,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17134,17183,20893,18973],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[22477,18121,21144,7120],"acf":{"announce":"A professional display from the Citizens, who maintain pace with the top","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\/474509"}],"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=474509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474515,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474509\/revisions\/474515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474509"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474509"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}