{"id":52243,"date":"2023-02-13T15:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T04:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/defiant-city-see-off-villa-to-close-gap-on-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2023-02-13T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T04:09:43","slug":"defiant-city-see-off-villa-to-close-gap-on-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/defiant-city-see-off-villa-to-close-gap-on-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiant City\u00a0see off Villa to close gap on Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Manchester\u00a0City\u00a0produced a defiant response to the Premier League&apos;s charge sheet as they comfortably beat Aston Villa 3-1 to close to within three points of leaders Arsenal on Sunday. Goals by Rodri, Ilkay Gundogan and Riyad Mahrez put the result beyond doubt by halftime as\u00a0City\u00a0got back on track following last weekend&apos;s loss at Tottenham Hotspur. With the club facing more than 100 charges relating to alleged financial misconduct the home fans were in belligerent mood at the Etihad Stadium with a series of ironic chants\u00a0and voicing support for the club&apos;s owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.thedailystar.net\/sports\/football\/news\/defiant-city-see-villa-close-gap-arsenal-3246381?src=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Original Source: Yahoo!<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester\u00a0City\u00a0produced a defiant response to the Premier League&apos;s charge sheet as they comfortably beat Aston Villa 3-1 to close to within three points of leaders Arsenal on Sunday. Goals by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astonvilla.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}