{"id":346771,"date":"2026-03-15T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:18:08","slug":"hammers-inflict-another-blow-on-citys-title-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346771\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammers inflict another blow on City&#8217;s title hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City&#8217;s title bid was left in tatters after a 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened West Ham left them nine points behind leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Just three days after their Champions League dreams were shattered by a 3-0 defeat at Real Madrid, a second part of what until not long ago was a potential quadruple also went up in smoke.<\/p>\n<p>It was a former Gunners player, Konstantinos Mavropanos, who did the damage with West Ham&#8217;s equaliser after Bernardo Silva had given City the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola had admitted the title race would be &#8220;over&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City&#8217;s title bid was left in tatters after a 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened West Ham left them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-346771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}