{"id":387693,"date":"2026-04-12T03:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/387693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:56:08","slug":"back-from-the-dead-arsenal-gift-city-the-premier-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/387693\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the dead, Arsenal gift City the Premier League title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City made an unexpected start to the Premier League season, losing their second and third matches against Tottenham and Brighton, before getting back on track with a 3-0 win in the Manchester derby.<\/p>\n<p>A 1\u20131 draw at Arsenal in Gameweek 4 was followed by victories over Burnley, Brentford and Everton, only for Pep Guardiola\u2019s side to suffer a surprise 1\u20130 defeat at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p>They then alternated between impressive wins over Bournemouth and Liverpool and a surprise defeat to Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>The Citizens then endured a winless run of four league games over the opening weeks of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Draws against Sunderland, Chelsea and Brighton were followed by a defeat to neighbours United, before a 2-0 win over Wolverhampton and a 2-2 draw with Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Further dropped points against Nottingham Forest and West Ham meant a costly four-point haul from those two fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these stumbles, Guardiola\u2019s side regrouped at a crucial time and remain in the hunt for the Premier League title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City made an unexpected start to the Premier League season, losing their second and third matches against Tottenham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4026,184572,72591,4027,184809,2664,85,46,2617,2619,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-387693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-arsenal-vs-bournemouth","10":"tag-bournemouth","11":"tag-chelsea","12":"tag-chelsea-vs-manchester-city","13":"tag-features","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-manchester-city","17":"tag-premier-league","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}