{"id":11046,"date":"2021-12-05T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T11:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=170702"},"modified":"2021-12-05T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T11:09:20","slug":"bernardo-silva-shines-as-city-goes-top-of-the-premier-league-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/bernardo-silva-shines-as-city-goes-top-of-the-premier-league-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva shines as City goes top of the Premier League table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugese star Bernardo Silva netted twice at Vicarage Road as the defending champions Manchester City are back at top of the premier league table.<br \/>\nThe chance was there to be taken at grasp after Chelsea lost points against West Ham United and Guardiola\u2019s side grabbed it with open arms by beating Watford 3-1 in an away fixture.<br \/>\nThe table changed after every match on Saturday, first it was Chelsea who was on top, after their defeat and Liverpool\u2019s Divock Origi\u2019s late winner they became the table toppers and then City took over after the last match of the day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u261d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ManCity<\/a> go top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PL<\/a> for the first time this season <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AFsdw8rVjA\">pic.twitter.com\/AFsdw8rVjA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1467214896630804490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The visitors quickly jumped on the score sheet with an early header from unmarked Raheem Sterling in the 4th minute to make it 1-0 and there was all white movements around Watford\u2019s box for the rest of the 1st half.<\/p>\n<p>Grealish could\u2019ve been on the score sheet for multiple of times as he missed several glorious chances in the 1st half an hour before Silva showed the way to score in 31st minute to make it 2-0. His second goal at 63rd minute was a piece of beauty as the 27-year-old cut inside the box and curled a shot into the the top corner to make it 3-0.<br \/>\nWatford themselves had their chances, but couldn\u2019t managed to provide the finishing touches. They got a consolation goal in the 74th minute which came back off the post from a J.Hernandez\u2019s shot and took a touch from Ederson before going into the back of the net. City seemed to loose threads in the last few minutes but they had done enough to clinch the victory by 3-1 in the end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2705\u2705\u2705\u2705\u2705<\/p>\n<p>Five <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PL<\/a> wins in a row for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ManCity<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATMCI?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATMCI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OVLkkHt8ik\">pic.twitter.com\/OVLkkHt8ik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1467212896761528322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was City\u2019s 5th consecutive league win which lifted them to 35 points from 15 games, one point ahead of 2nd placed Liverpool and two of Chelsea who are now 3rd on the table after losing 3-2 by West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>Bernardo Silva who was chosen as player of the match is also the club\u2019s top scorer in the league this season, meanwhile he personally believes that there\u2019s still a long way to go ; \u201d It\u2019s still the beginning, we are not even halfway through and there is lot to hard work to do. We are in good form and we want to keep it that way\u201d, he said after the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unplayable! \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9\ud83d\udcab<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ManCity<\/a> | @EASPORTSFIFA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m684vHQMCV\">pic.twitter.com\/m684vHQMCV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1467214958974980107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Newly appointed Ralf Rangnick\u2019s Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, both will be in action on Sunday, eyeing the 5th spot in the table with the \u2018whites\u2019 and the \u2018gunners\u2019 still be having a game in hand after the match day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernardo Silva scored a double in Manchester City\u2019s 3-2 victory over Watford which confirms the top spot for Pep Guardiola\u2019s side on the Premier League table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":33522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2862,2549,2267,1001,1877,1126,2604,220,249,359,378,453,2661],"class_list":["post-11046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bernardo-silva","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-ea-sports","tag-english-football","tag-jack-grealish","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-manchester-united","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-raheem-sterling","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-watford-fc"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}