{"id":2121,"date":"2026-04-12T19:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:03:52","slug":"manchester-city-largely-dominates-chelsea-and-comes-back-to-six-points-behind-arsenal-jeremy-doku-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2121","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City largely dominates Chelsea and comes back to six points behind Arsenal, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-elbcontext=\"area:link\" data-elb-navigation=\"url:#href\">\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Victory was mandatory for Manchester City this Sunday against Chelsea. The men of <strong>Pep Guardiola<\/strong> absolutely had to win to benefit from <strong>Arsenal&#8217;s defeat <\/strong>against Bournemouth and thus come back to six points behind the Gunners. It&#8217;s done since the Cityzens won three goals to nothing this Sunday in London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">The Blues dominated the first period and thought they would open the score shortly after the quarter of an hour of play but the goal from <strong>Marc Cucurella<\/strong> was canceled for an offside position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">It was ultimately the visitors who scored the first goal of the game via <strong>Nico O\u2019Reilly<\/strong>who deceived<strong> Robert Sanchez<\/strong> header in the 51st minute of play. A few minutes later,<strong> Rayan Cherki <\/strong>found <strong>Marc Gh\u00e9ri<\/strong>who was responsible for doubling the bet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Shortly before the 70th minute of play, <strong>J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku <\/strong>pressed <strong>Moises Caicedo<\/strong> and recovered the ball. The Belgian then advanced with the ball before deceiving Sanchez with a left shot to seal the score of the match. The number eleven thus scored his fourth goal of the season, the second in the league.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">The Blues and the Cityzens will face each other next Sunday. As a reminder, Manchester City has one game in hand. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory was mandatory for Manchester City this Sunday against Chelsea. The men of Pep Guardiola absolutely had to win to benefit from Arsenal&#8217;s defeat against Bournemouth and thus come back to six points behind the Gunners. It&#8217;s done since the Cityzens won three goals to nothing this Sunday in London. The Blues dominated the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}