{"id":156400,"date":"2019-09-30T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=156400"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:09:03","slug":"epl-moyes-predicts-club-to-win-premier-league-title-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=156400","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Moyes predicts club to win Premier League title this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EPL-David-Moyes-reveals-why-he-didnt-sign-Harry-Maguire-for-Man-United.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Manchester United and Everton manager, David Moyes has backed Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side to win the 2019\/2020 English Premier League (EPL) title ahead of Pep Guardiola\u2019s Manchester City this season.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the UEFA Champions League winners have a significant advantage over Guardiola\u2019s men to win the English top-flight league this season.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola\u2019s City amassed 98 points during the 2018\/2019 campaign but won the league on the final day of the season by just one point ahead of Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Liverpool can win the EPL ahead of Man City this season, Moyes told beIN SPORTS: \u201cYes, I think so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought they were a very good team last year and they are this year as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they can keep the front three fit \u2013 Firmino is so important to the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moyes added: \u201cThey look to me as if they [Liverpool] have the strongest defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of that, I think that gives them the edge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan City have given teams some real good opportunities, I don\u2019t see it quite as much with Liverpool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are currently on top of the EPL table with 21 points from seven matches, while Man City are second placed with 16 points from the same number of games.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United and Everton manager, David Moyes has backed Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side to win the 2019\/2020 English Premier League (EPL) title ahead of Pep Guardiola\u2019s Manchester City this season. According to him, the UEFA Champions League winners have a significant advantage over Guardiola\u2019s men to win the English top-flight league this season. Guardiola\u2019s City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143261,"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":[3367,10175,13337],"class_list":["post-156400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-liverpool","tag-man-city","tag-moyes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156400","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=156400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}