{"id":536842,"date":"2026-03-14T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536842\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:25:08","slug":"west-ham-1-1-man-city-mar-14-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536842\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham 1-1 Man City (Mar 14, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> ‘s title bid was left in tatters after a 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened West Ham left them nine points behind leaders Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just three days after their Champions League dreams were shattered by a 3-0 defeat at Real Madrid<\/a>, a second part of what until not long ago was a potential quadruple also went up in smoke.<\/p>\n

It was a former Gunners player, Konstantinos Mavropanos<\/a>, who did the damage with West Ham’s equaliser after Bernardo Silva<\/a> had given City the lead.<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola had admitted the title race would be “over” if his side dropped points, while just 20 minutes before kick-off at the London Stadium, Arsenal had snatched two late goals to beat Everton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was also a big night at the other end of the pitch, with a point lifting West Ham out of the relegation zone for the first time since December.<\/p>\n

Guardiola was watching from the stands as he served a touchline ban for the booking he received at Newcastle last weekend.<\/p>\n

\"ErlingErling Haaland, Rayan Cherki and Manchester City failed to find a winner against West Ham.<\/p>\n

Izzy Poles – AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

But he was quickly in the ear of assistant Pep Lijnders by telephone, despite his side enjoying a whopping 93 per cent of possession during the first 10 minutes, a surreally one-sided period during which they completed 94 passes to West Ham’s seven.<\/p>\n

They had nothing to show for it, though, with Erling Haaland<\/a> fluffing a header at the far post from Rayan Ait Nouri’s cross.<\/p>\n

Haaland has scored 11 times against West Ham, more than any other team, but not even a trip to his favourite opposition could end his recent shaky spell of just three goals in his last 12 Premier League<\/a> matches.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, City took the lead in the 31st minute when Antoine Semenyo<\/a> and Omar Marmoush<\/a> fed Silva down the left.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese playmaker appeared to be attempting to loft the ball towards Haaland, but instead his miscued cross turned into a superb, delicate chip over stunned Hammers goalkeeper Mads Hermansen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the lead lasted just four minutes before Jarrod Bowen<\/a> swung in West Ham’s first corner of the match.<\/p>\n

City keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma<\/a> came out to punch the ball clear but missed it completely, leaving Mavropanos with a free header.<\/p>\n

The visitors should have gone in ahead at half-time when Haaland squared the ball for Semenyo, but the Ghanaian dragged his effort wide.<\/p>\n

Marmoush skewed another shot across goal and wide before he was replaced on the hour by Rayan Cherki<\/a> with Guardiola, racking up quite a phone bill, also sending on J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cherki’s first touch almost produced a goal from Haaland, but the Norwegian’s low drive was turned around a post by Hermansen.<\/p>\n

Haaland’s frustrating evening was summed up when Doku found him in front of goal, 12 yards out, with the striker totally miscuing his first-time shot.<\/p>\n

Hermansen then tipped a Tijjani Reijnders<\/a> effort and Marc Gu\u00e9hi<\/a> skied a late chance as West Ham held out to do their London neighbours, and themselves, a massive favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City ‘s title bid was left in tatters after a 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened West Ham left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-536842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536842","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=536842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}