{"id":505691,"date":"2025-12-20T13:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505691"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:20:47","slug":"haaland-scores-twice-as-man-city-beat-west-ham-to-top-epl","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/haaland-scores-twice-as-man-city-beat-west-ham-to-top-epl\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland scores twice as Man City beat West Ham to top EPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defeated West Ham United 3-0 at Etihad as Erling Haaland netted twice, and the Sky Blues are the new Premier League leaders as Arsenal could return to the top if they beat Everton later today.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola\u2019s side needed only 5 minutes to open the score. Erling Haaland secured a rebound and left no chance for the keeper to save his shot. Before the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, Man City already had 2-goal lead. This time, Haaland assisted Tijjani Reijnders, who, from close range, made it 2-0 in the 38<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the 69<sup>th<\/sup> minute, the Sky Blues&#8217; lead became 3 goals. Erling Haaland, with his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal in the match, secured the 3 points for his team ahead of the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Until the end of the clash, the only intrigue remained if the Norwegian forward would score a hat-trick, but he didn\u2019t do so as he had a fantastic chance in the extra time, but his shot went just past the right post.<\/p>\n<p>Man City are now 1 point ahead of Arsenal as the Gunners will face Everton later today and could return to the top of the EPL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three more points! \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\ude75 3-0 \u2692\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@okx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gZLeC65uow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gZLeC65uow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/2002422042394816536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defeated West Ham United 3-0 at Etihad as Erling Haaland netted twice, and the Sky Blues are the new Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17223,17183],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18121,16461],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Sky Blues beat the Hammers at home to top the Premier League.","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\/505691"}],"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=505691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505695,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505691\/revisions\/505695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505691"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505691"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}