{"id":172967,"date":"2019-12-04T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172967"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:31:12","slug":"epl-man-citys-mahrez-makes-history-in-4-1-win-over-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172967","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Man City\u2019s Mahrez makes history in 4-1 win over Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/12\/EPL-Man-City\u2019s-Mahrez-makes-history-in-4-1-win-over.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City winger, Riyad Mahrez on Tuesday night made English Premier League, EPL, history in his side\u2019s 4-1 victory over Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>According to Goal, the 28-year-old becomes the first Algerian player and the 110th player to reach 50 EPL goals after he netted Man City\u2019s fourth goal against Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gabriel Jesus had opened the scoring for Pep Guardiola\u2019s men in the 24th and 50th minutes before Rodri made it 3-0 on 68 minutes for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Brady did score a goal for Burnley as Man City defeated the host at Turf Moor.<\/p>\n<p>The win over Burnley means Man City are now in the second position on the EPL table with 32 points from 15 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Man City will now tackle Manchester United in a Premier League derby this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are City, happy to reach 50 goals in the Premier League and be the first Algerian to do so,\u201d Mahrez wrote on Instagram after the match.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City winger, Riyad Mahrez on Tuesday night made English Premier League, EPL, history in his side\u2019s 4-1 victory over Burnley. According to Goal, the 28-year-old becomes the first Algerian player and the 110th player to reach 50 EPL goals after he netted Man City\u2019s fourth goal against Burnley. However, Gabriel Jesus had opened the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172968,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,9512],"class_list":["post-172967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-epl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172967","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=172967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}