{"id":3780,"date":"2023-10-22T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2023-10-22T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:29:22","slug":"epl-man-city-end-defeat-snag-despite-brightons-late-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/22\/epl-man-city-end-defeat-snag-despite-brightons-late-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Man City end defeat snag despite Brighton\u2019s late rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Manchester City beat Brighton 2-1 on Saturday to return to the Premier League summit and end Liverpool\u2019s brief stay at the top after their victory in the Merseyside derby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">City, who had lost their previous two league games, dominated the first half of their match at the Etihad against Brighton, taking the lead through Alvarez in the seventh minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jeremy Doku was the creator as he reached the byline and pulled back for Alvarez to tuck home his seventh of the season from 12 yards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Haaland ended his brief goal drought by doubling City\u2019s lead 12 minutes later, driving home a fierce left-footed shot from just outside the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But it was a different story after the break and Brighton pulled a goal back in the 73rd minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Moments after Alvarez failed with an attempt to catch Jason Steele off his line, the ball was quickly sent upfield and, after Kaoru Mitoma\u2019s attempted pass was blocked, Ansu Fati tucked home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">City defender Manuel Akanji was sent off in the closing minutes but they held on to win despite late pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City beat Brighton 2-1 on Saturday to return to the Premier League summit and end Liverpool\u2019s brief stay at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}