{"id":478477,"date":"2024-02-17T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478477"},"modified":"2024-02-17T15:51:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T19:51:02","slug":"man-city-halted-to-a-1-1-draw-by-chelsea-at-etihad","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-halted-to-a-1-1-draw-by-chelsea-at-etihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City halted to a 1-1 draw by Chelsea at Etihad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodri delivered a dramatic late equalizer for Manchester City, salvaging a point and denying Chelsea a victory, thus maintaining City&#8217;s impressive unbeaten home record.<\/p>\n<p>While this result meant City slipped in the title race standings with Liverpool and Arsenal securing emphatic wins earlier on Saturday, the late goal proved crucial in preventing a home defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea took the lead just before halftime through Raheem Sterling, who finished off a brilliant counter-attack by meeting Nicolas Jackson&#8217;s cross, skillfully cutting inside Kyle Walker, and curling his shot into the net.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Curled home beautifully. \ud83d\udc4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MciChe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MciChe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XKBxWwzCK7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XKBxWwzCK7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1758921361378996439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite Chelsea&#8217;s threatening breaks, City had their chances, with Ederson denying Sterling a second goal and Erling Haaland missing a golden opportunity to score.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pushing for the equaliser! \ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\ude75 0-1 \ud83d\udd35 <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\/WQU3GaDVLX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WQU3GaDVLX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1758927916329562322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>City piled on the pressure in the second half but struggled to seriously test Chelsea&#8217;s goalkeeper, Dorde Petrovic. Facing the possibility of their first home league defeat since November 2022, Rodri emerged as the hero with a ferocious first-time strike from the edge of the box, finding the net with the help of a touch off Chelsea substitute Trevoh Chalobah.<\/p>\n<p>While the draw sees City drop to third in the table, four points behind leaders Liverpool with a game in hand, they have the chance to close the gap and leapfrog second-placed Arsenal if they secure a victory against Brentford on Tuesday. Chelsea, on the other hand, maintains their 10th position but heads to Wembley for the Carabao Cup final with renewed confidence after a commendable display against City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodri delivered a dramatic late equalizer for Manchester City, salvaging a point and denying Chelsea a victory, thus maintaining City&#8217;s impressive unbeaten home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":478479,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,17183,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17902,18121,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Citizens stay third 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\/478477"}],"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=478477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478481,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478477\/revisions\/478481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478477"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478477"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}