{"id":73263,"date":"2018-12-27T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73263"},"modified":"2018-12-27T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:04:21","slug":"premier-league-table-liverpool-go-6-points-clear-man-city-drop-to-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73263","title":{"rendered":"Premier League table: Liverpool go 6 points clear, Man City drop to third place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Premier-League-table-Liverpool-go-6-points-clear-Man-City-drop-to-third-place.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The title race in England took a new twist on Boxing Day, as Liverpool opened a six-point lead at the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Jurgen Klopp\u2019s men hammered Newcastle United 4-0 at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Dejan Lovren, Mohammed Salah, Xerdan Shaqiri and Fabinho all scored, as the Reds coasted to victory.<\/p>\n<p>However, Manchester City lost for the second consecutive game, going down 2-1 at Leicester City despite taking the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola\u2019s men are now seven points behind Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur are up to third, following their 5-0 battering of Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United also beat Huddersfield 3-1 at Old Trafford.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title race in England took a new twist on Boxing Day, as Liverpool opened a six-point lead at the top of the table. Jurgen Klopp\u2019s men hammered Newcastle United 4-0 at Anfield. Dejan Lovren, Mohammed Salah, Xerdan Shaqiri and Fabinho all scored, as the Reds coasted to victory. However, Manchester City lost for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73264,"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":[],"class_list":["post-73263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73263","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=73263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}