{"id":477676,"date":"2024-02-05T18:05:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477676"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:06:42","slug":"foden-hat-trick-sends-man-city-two-points-away-from-the-top","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/foden-hat-trick-sends-man-city-two-points-away-from-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Foden hat-trick sends Man City two points away from the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Foden&#8217;s hat-trick propelled Manchester City into second place in the Premier League, trailing leaders Liverpool by just two points, after a commanding victory over Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the hosts initially taking the lead with Neal Maupay&#8217;s breakaway goal in the 21st minute, Brentford&#8217;s keeper, Mark Flekken, put on a heroic performance with a series of stunning saves to thwart the reigning champions until Foden&#8217;s crucial strike in first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Foden&#8217;s goal injected added momentum for City, and he secured his second eight minutes into the second half, exploiting a gap in Brentford&#8217;s defense to nod Kevin de Bruyne&#8217;s cross past the exposed Flekken.<\/p>\n<p>Although Brentford had fleeting chances to level, including Ivan Toney&#8217;s close-range volley that went over, City demonstrated their superiority and sealed the victory 20 minutes from time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"de\">Philip. Walter. Foden.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc1d 1-3 \ud83e\ude75 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ManCity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HKoojVfMzD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HKoojVfMzD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1754623542753112568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Foden gracefully received Erling Haaland&#8217;s pass, guiding the ball past Flekken with precision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Foden&#8217;s hat-trick propelled Manchester City into second place in the Premier League, trailing leaders Liverpool by just two points, after a commanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":477677,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18007,17183,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18121,17886,2644],"acf":{"announce":"The Citizens defeated Brentford 3-1 and climbed to second with a game in hand","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\/477676"}],"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=477676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477679,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477676\/revisions\/477679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477676"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477676"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}