{"id":393278,"date":"2026-01-05T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393278\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:29:08","slug":"chelsea-dagger-for-guardiola-as-arsenal-move-six-points-clear-football-weekly-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393278\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea dagger for Guardiola as Arsenal move six points clear \u2013 Football Weekly | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rate, review, share on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/football-weekly-the-guardian\/id188674007?mt=2\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/guardianfootballweekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/channel\/football-weekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Audioboom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/guardianfootballweekly\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mixcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/footballweekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Acast<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/guardianuk\/football-weekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stitcher<\/a>, and join the conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/audio\/2026\/jan\/05\/mailto:footballweekly@theguardian.com\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On the podcast today: Arsenal move six points clear at the top after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/manchestercity\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> drop four points in six games. Did Pep Guardiola get outthought by Chelsea caretaker Calum McFarlane?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Elsewhere, a first win of the season for Wolves and Harrison Reed scores a goal-of-the-season contender for Fulham to deny Liverpool victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Plus, Venezuela, Donald Trump and the Fifa Peace Prize, a bad afternoon for Celtic and your questions answered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">And yes, the pod finished recording just before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jan\/05\/ruben-amorim-sacked-by-manchester-united-live-updates\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruben Amorim was sacked<\/a> by Manchester United. Join us tomorrow for a special edition on his tenure and what happens next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Support the Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/euro-support\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">You can also find Football Weekly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/guardian_footballweekly\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@guardian_footballweekly?lang=en\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FootballWeeklyPodcast\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola and Calum McFarlane. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Paul Currie\/Shutterstock (16220539gh)&#10;Chelsea interim manager Calum McFarlane and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola&#10;Manchester City v Chelsea, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 Jan 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4031.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356.02207888861324\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Photograph: Paul Currie\/Shutterstock<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on email.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-393278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}