{"id":489161,"date":"2024-12-21T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489161"},"modified":"2024-12-21T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T14:50:27","slug":"man-citys-downfall-continues-with-1-2-defeat-to-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-citys-downfall-continues-with-1-2-defeat-to-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City&#8217;s downfall continues with 1-2 defeat to Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City&#8217;s struggles continued with a 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa at Villa Park. Goals from Jhon Duran and Morgan Rogers secured a vital win for Villa, while Phil Foden\u2019s injury-time goal was only a consolation.<\/p>\n<p>City have now dropped to sixth in the Premier League standings, nine points behind leaders Liverpool, who also have two games in hand. Villa&#8217;s victory elevated them to fifth, maintaining their push for a top-four spot.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa started strongly, forcing City\u2019s goalkeeper Stefan Ortega into crucial early saves, including a stunning effort to deny Pau Torres. Villa opened the scoring in the 16th minute when Youri Tielemans\u2019 pass set up Rogers, who squared the ball for Duran to finish.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"nl\">Morgz \ud83c\udd70\ufe0f Jhon \u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xbj64YMau9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Xbj64YMau9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1870460462497775828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Morgan Rogers doubled Villa\u2019s lead in the 65th minute with a precise low shot. Phil Foden scored late for City, but it wasn\u2019t enough as the defending champions extended their winless away streak to eight matches. This was City\u2019s ninth loss in their last 12 games across all competitions, adding to the pressure on manager Pep Guardiola.<\/p>\n<p>The loss extends City\u2019s winless streak to eight away matches across all competitions and marks their ninth defeat in 12 games. Now Guardiola faces mounting pressure to turn the season around as the reigning champions face an uphill battle to defend their title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City&#8217;s struggles continued with a 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa at Villa Park. Goals from Jhon Duran and Morgan Rogers secured a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":489162,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18818,17183,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18819,18121,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Citizens recorded ninth defeat in 12 games in all competitions","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\/489161"}],"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=489161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489163,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489161\/revisions\/489163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489161"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489161"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}