{"id":5821,"date":"2023-01-01T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/involvement.co.ke\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2023-01-01T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:04:24","slug":"premier-league-saturday-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/premier-league-saturday-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Saturday round up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Andrew<\/p>\n<p>kennyandrewmuganda@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal extended their lead over Manchester City to 7 points after they beat Brighton 4-2 in the last Premier League match of 2022. The Gunners managed to survive a late Brighton push, to pick up the massive 3 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1609270027563171840?cxt=HHwWgICwyYqko9UsAAAA\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1609270027563171840?cxt=HHwWgICwyYqko9UsAAAA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manchester City and Newcastle both dropped points after drawing against Everton and Leeds respectively. City took the lead through Erling Haaland in the first half but a spectacular strike from Demarai Gray in the second levelled matters. Newcastle played out a 0-0 draw at home against Leeds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5822\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5822\" src=\"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/323124440_561820428783850_2779483750408280417_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demarai Gray celebrates scoring a stunner at the Etihad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marcus Rashford came off the bench to score the only goal of the game as United edged Wolves 1-0 at Molineux. The win sent United into the top four for the first time since March. United are 4 points off Manchester City and 2 points behind Newcastle, who have played one more game.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola spoke about the Red Devils in his press conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have the feeling United are coming back, finally United is coming back. I&#8217;ve seen it on Thursday and against Chelsea in the first half. I said I like what I see of United right now. There will be a lot of teams like United fighting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; ESPN<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Crystal Palace defeated Bournemouth 2-0 as they recovered from their Boxing Day 3-0 home loss to Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Southampton remained rooted at the bottom of the log after they went down 2-1 to Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League action continues today with two matches lined up.<\/p>\n<h4>Premier League matches (1-1-2023)<\/h4>\n<p>Tottenham vs Aston Villa (5pm)<\/p>\n<p>Nottingham vs Chelsea (7.30pm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Andrew kennyandrewmuganda@gmail.com Arsenal extended their lead over Manchester City to 7 points after they beat Brighton 4-2 in the last Premier League match of 2022. The Gunners managed to survive a late Brighton push, to pick up the massive 3 points. https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1609270027563171840?cxt=HHwWgICwyYqko9UsAAAA Manchester City and Newcastle both dropped points after drawing against Everton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,70],"tags":[328,329,330,331],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-sports","category-sports","tag-everton","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}