{"id":157115,"date":"2025-09-20T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157115\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:33:07","slug":"liverpool-hold-off-everton-in-derby-maintain-winning-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157115\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool hold off Everton in derby, maintain winning start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Liverpool maintained their perfect start to the Premier League season with a narrow 2-1 victory over Everton in Saturday&#8217;s Merseyside derby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ryan Gravenberch put the hosts in front at Anfield with a superbly-controlled volley in the 10th minute before Hugo Ekitike &#8212; selected ahead of Alexander Isak &#8212; doubled the advantage in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But despite that two-goal lead, Liverpool were once again made to sweat. Idrissa Gueye rifled one into the top corner just before the hour mark to put Arne Slot&#8217;s side under pressure, although they hung on for another vital win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Premier League champions have won all five games to start the season and sit at top of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool maintained their perfect start to the Premier League season with a narrow 2-1 victory over Everton in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,82327,82326,561,82],"class_list":["post-157115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-everton-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-6149","tag-liverpool-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-6140","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}