{"id":145141,"date":"2019-08-20T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145141"},"modified":"2019-08-20T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:19:10","slug":"epl-liverpool-arsenal-lead-premier-league-table-after-game-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145141","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Liverpool, Arsenal lead Premier League table after Game Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EPL-Liverpool-Arsenal-lead-Premier-League-table-after-Game-Week-2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Liverpool are top of the Premier League, after the completion of Game Week 2 fixtures on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds claimed a hard-fought 2-1 win at Southampton on Saturday, to claim first place.<\/p>\n<p>Although Manchester United threatened to topple them after taking the lead against Wolves last night, they conceded a stunning Ruben Neves strike to draw 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are in second spot, after also winning their first two games.<\/p>\n<p>Champions Manchester City occupy the third position, after a dramatic end to their 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>City thought they had taken all three points, but VAR chalked off Gabriel Jesus\u2019 stoppage-time goal for handball in the build up.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are top of the Premier League, after the completion of Game Week 2 fixtures on Monday night. The Reds claimed a hard-fought 2-1 win at Southampton on Saturday, to claim first place. Although Manchester United threatened to topple them after taking the lead against Wolves last night, they conceded a stunning Ruben Neves strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4427,9512,3367],"class_list":["post-145141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-epl","tag-liverpool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}