{"id":492677,"date":"2025-05-16T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492677"},"modified":"2025-05-16T17:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:17:20","slug":"chelsea-beat-man-united-1-0-and-secure-a-place-in-the-top-4","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chelsea-beat-man-united-1-0-and-secure-a-place-in-the-top-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea beat Man United 1-0 and secure a place in the top 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea defeated Manchester United 1-0 at Stamford Bridge as the three points secured them a place in the top 4, and with a victory in their final match of the season, the Blues will play in the Champions League without depending on results from other teams.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Amorim decided to use a lot of his starters in this match despite the upcoming final in the Europa League in Bilbao against Tottenham, and that definitely shocked the Blues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THREE MASSIVE POINTS! \ud83d\udd35\ud83d\ude4c<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\/CHEMUN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CHEMUN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g3ESNPvZEZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/g3ESNPvZEZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1923487223854309733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils scored the only goal in the first half. Bruno Fernandes assisted Harry Maguire, who netted in the 16th minute. However, the goal was disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca\u2019s side had two chances to score in the extra time in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half but missed them both, and the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes finished without a goal.<\/p>\n<p>The winning goal in the game was scored by Marc Cucurella as the Spaniard headed the ball into the Red Devils\u2019 net after a fantastic cross from Reece James that found him unmarked in the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils will not travel to Bilbao to face Tottenham in the Europa League final, which will also be a clash for a place in the Champions League next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea defeated Manchester United 1-0 at Stamford Bridge as the three points secured them a place in the top 4, and with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492680,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,16789,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17902,17559,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Blues secured a crucial victory against the Red Devils.","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\/492677"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492682,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492677\/revisions\/492682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492677"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492677"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}