{"id":517942,"date":"2026-09-20T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=517942"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:59:00","slug":"manchester-city-beat-sunderland-5-3-to-top-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/manchester-city-beat-sunderland-5-3-to-top-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City beat Sunderland 5-3 to top Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man City head into the international break in a fantastic spirit after enjoying a perfect weekend in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues saw champions Arsenal lose 3-0 to Brighton yesterday, and they took advantage today, defeating Sunderland 5-3 in an incredible game at Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Enzo Maresca revealed today before the match against the Black Cats that this would be his team\u2019s toughest test in the current campaign, but the victory made his team the only remaining team in the league that hadn\u2019t lost a single point since the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must admit that I prefer 1-0 victories rather than 5-3, but I knew that it would not be easy,\u201d the Italian manager shared after the Sky Blues victory.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca became only the 6th boss in EPL history to win his 1st 5 matches in charge of the team after Carlo Ancelotti, Craig Shakespeare, Maurizio Sarri, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.<\/p>\n<p>The other one that did it? Predecessor Guardiola when he took over the Sky Blues 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland&#8217;s goal today vs. Sunderland means that he has now scored against all 25 EPL clubs he has played against.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The perfect start \ud83d\udc4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pBXxTvknMF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pBXxTvknMF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ManCity\/status\/2101709102179074448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man City head into the international break in a fantastic spirit after enjoying a perfect weekend in the Premier League. The Sky Blues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":517943,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22959,17183],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[22960,18121],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Sky Blues put pressure on Arsenal with the victory.","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\/517942"}],"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=517942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517944,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517942\/revisions\/517944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517942"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=517942"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=517942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}