{"id":17924,"date":"2024-11-20T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17924"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:20:55","slug":"five-talking-points-as-premier-league-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17924","title":{"rendered":"Five talking points as Premier League returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool are flying under Arne Slot and sit top of the Premier League and the Champions League table, having dropped points in just two games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are five points clear of Manchester City, who have lost four games in a row in all competitions &#8211; something Pep Guardiola had never experienced before in his managerial career (excluding penalty shootouts).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite their recent run and speculation about the Spaniard&#8217;s future, however, Guardiola this week <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2lpxkv2gno\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">agreed a new one-year deal<\/a> to extend his stay at Etihad Stadium to 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a timely boost for City, who have another potentially tough game at home to Tottenham on Saturday (17:30 GMT) as they bid to avoid five defeats in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the sixth occasion a team has been five points clear after 11 games &#8211; the first five all ended up as champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But City have won the last four Premier League titles and trailed the leaders by more than five points at one stage in each of those seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool and City have one Premier League game each before they meet in a potential blockbuster at Anfield on Sunday, 1 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal, who have been runners-up for the past two seasons, are four points back &#8211; level with Chelsea, Nottingham Forest and Brighton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Gunners and Forest meet on Saturday at 15:00 GMT at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cdxyk2777keo\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are flying under Arne Slot and sit top of the Premier League and the Champions League table, having dropped points in just two games this season. They are five points clear of Manchester City, who have lost four games in a row in all competitions &#8211; something Pep Guardiola had never experienced before in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}