{"id":84927,"date":"2023-10-30T03:50:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T02:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/?p=84927"},"modified":"2023-10-30T03:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T02:50:38","slug":"haaland-scores-derby-double-as-man-city-thrash-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/haaland-scores-derby-double-as-man-city-thrash-man-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland Scores Derby Double As Man City Thrash Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Haaland slotted home from the penalty spot midway through the first half and headed in a second just after half-time before setting up Phil Foden for City\u2019s third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City began the match outside the top four after an indifferent start to their title defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Pep Guardiola\u2019s men remain the favourites for an unprecedented fourth consecutive English top-flight title and showed they are a class apart from their local rivals as they moved up to third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fifth defeat in 10 league games this season leaves United down in eighth, 11 points off the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United great Bobby Charlton was again remembered before kick-off as legends from both clubs that played with and against the 1966 World Cup winner were welcomed onto the pitch before a minute\u2019s applause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But hostilities were restored once the action got underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a miserable start to the season, United had won their previous three games but in unconvincing fashion against Brentford, Sheffield United and FC Copenhagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City\u2019s Norwegian striker, Erling Haaland, scored twice as Manchester City inflicted more pain on Manchester United with a 3-0 win at Old Trafford to close within two points of Premier League leaders Tottenham. Haaland slotted home from the penalty spot midway through the first half and headed in a second just after half-time before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43],"tags":[5201,5130],"class_list":["post-84927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-sports","tag-haaland","tag-man-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84929,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84927\/revisions\/84929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}