{"id":3226,"date":"2026-04-23T00:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:17:27","slug":"soccer-manchester-city-overtakes-arsenal-at-the-top-of-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"Soccer. Manchester City overtakes Arsenal at the top of the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tw-paragraph-block\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-1-base\">Arsenal will move back in front in the event of a victory or draw on Saturday against Newcastle during the 34th day, but Manchester City still has a wildcard, with a late match to play against Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tw-paragraph-block\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-1-base\">On Wednesday, Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team did not shine at Turf Moor but they went for the victory they needed to take the throne in the Premier League, three days after their success against the Gunners (2-1).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tw-paragraph-block\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-1-base\">It has a perfectly identical record to Arsenal (70 points and +37 in goal difference) after 33 matches played, but it doubles it in the standings thanks to a higher total of goals scored (66 against 63).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tw-paragraph-block\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-1-base\">The one scored in the fifth minute by Erling Haaland, his 24th goal this season in the Premier League, was enough for the Citizens to be happy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tw-paragraph-block\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-1-base\">The Norwegian center forward got the better of goalkeeper Martin Dubravka with a fine left dive, after a powerful sprint launched by a pass from J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku (5th, 1-0).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tw-paragraph-block\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-1-base\">The visitors dominated without managing to drive home the point, and sometimes letting their host approach Gianluigi Donnarumma&#8217;s cage a little too easily, until the final seconds of the match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tw-paragraph-block\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-1-base after:text-primary after:heading-2-xl after:relative after:top-(2px) after:pl-1 after:!leading-(18px) after:text-primary-300 after:content-(&quot;\u00bb&quot;) dark:after:text-primary-300\">For Burnley, this 22nd defeat suffered in 34 days is synonymous with relegation to the Championship (2nd division), the third in five seasons. Enough to make Genevan Zeki Amdouni want to go elsewhere, under contract with the Clarets until 2028 and who is still recovering from a serious knee injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal will move back in front in the event of a victory or draw on Saturday against Newcastle during the 34th day, but Manchester City still has a wildcard, with a late match to play against Crystal Palace. On Wednesday, Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team did not shine at Turf Moor but they went for the victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","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\/3226","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=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}