{"id":507338,"date":"2026-01-24T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507338"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:58:15","slug":"man-city-defeat-wolverhampton-2-0-at-etihad-to-end-negative-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-defeat-wolverhampton-2-0-at-etihad-to-end-negative-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City defeat Wolverhampton 2-0 at Etihad to end negative series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City won 2-0 against Wolverhampton at home and ended a series of 4 straight matches without a victory in the Premier League, in which the Sky Blues drew 3 times and lost the derby against Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>The victory comes after Pep Guardiola\u2019s side suffered another defeat a few days ago in the Champions League when they lost their visit to Bodo\/Glimt.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Erling Haaland was benched, but without him, the Citizens scored twice in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half and secured a comfortable advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the clash came after only 6 minutes when Omar Marmoush, who played in Erling\u2019s place, scored after Matheus Nunes, while the new addition in January, Antoine Semenyo, scored his debut goal for Man City in the extra time of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half to make his team\u2019s lead 2 goals.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, Manchester City chose to control the tempo of the match as Erling Haaland entered the pitch in the 74<sup>th<\/sup> minute in the place of Rayan Cherki.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues are only 4 points behind leader Arsenal after today\u2019s victory, but the Gunners have a game in hand as they face Man United tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three points \u2705<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\ude75 2-0 \ud83d\udc3a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@okx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jnuNJzqw0K\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jnuNJzqw0K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/2015106523081375962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 24, 2026<\/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 won 2-0 against Wolverhampton at home and ended a series of 4 straight matches without a victory in the Premier League, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,20573],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18121,20575],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Sky Blues are back on winning ways in the 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\/507338"}],"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=507338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507347,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507338\/revisions\/507347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507338"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507338"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}