{"id":405693,"date":"2021-10-17T14:39:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=405693"},"modified":"2021-10-17T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:23:52","slug":"chelsea-set-new-epl-record-after-beating-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=405693","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea set new EPL record after beating Brentford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea on Saturday set a new Premier League record after beating their London rival Brentford 1-0 in an away Premier League tie.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues defeated the newly-promoted Brentford, thanks to Ben Chilwell\u2019s 45th-minute strike.<\/p>\n<p>The win over Brentford means Chelsea have now become the first club from the English capital to win seven consecutive away London derbies in English Football League history.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are now on top of the Premier League table with 19 points from eight fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side are one point ahead of second position Liverpool and two points ahead of third-place Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will tackle Malmo on Wednesday in a UEFA Champions League tie at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chelsea have been backed by a former Manchester United captain, Gary Neville, to win the Premier League title this season.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel\u2019s side finished in the fourth position last season behind Liverpool, Man United and Man City.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea on Saturday set a new Premier League record after beating their London rival Brentford 1-0 in an away Premier League tie. The Blues defeated the newly-promoted Brentford, thanks to Ben Chilwell\u2019s 45th-minute strike. The win over Brentford means Chelsea have now become the first club from the English capital to win seven consecutive away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405694,"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":[2658,17479,1397,9512],"class_list":["post-405693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-brentford","tag-chelsea","tag-epl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405693","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=405693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/405694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}