{"id":11606,"date":"2022-05-09T02:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T20:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=220125"},"modified":"2022-05-09T02:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T20:33:04","slug":"liverpool-draw-manchester-city-win-creates-more-tension-in-premier-league-points-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/liverpool-draw-manchester-city-win-creates-more-tension-in-premier-league-points-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool draw & Manchester City win creates more tension in Premier League points table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Liverpool remains in the hunt for the Premier League crown, but the recent wave of outcomes has struck them damage.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Following a 1-1 tie against Tottenham Hotspur, the Reds were obliged to compromise with a point. At Anfield, Son Heung-Min pushed the guests ahead until Luis Diaz evened up to secure Liverpool a point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">With a 5-0 win at home versus Newcastle United the very next day, Manchester City expanded their cushion at the top of the standings to three points. Liverpool will have barely three fixtures remaining to strive and catch up to their title rivals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Manchester City seized a top position in the Premier League following a 5-0 hammering of Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, providing the defending champs with a three-point cushion above Liverpool. The hosts netted five times courtesy of Raheem Sterling\u2019s brace, with Aymeric Laporte, Rodri, and Phil Foden also striking as they rebounded from their Champions League semi-final humiliation by Real Madrid. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Sterling\u2019s strike soothed any initial nerves, and Laporte\u2019s tap-in handed City total charge well until halftime. Well after the interval, Rodri netted City\u2019s third goal from a corner, and Foden swiped in City\u2019s fourth, while Sterling netted once more in stoppage time as City pounced on Liverpool\u2019s 1-1 tie with Tottenham Hotspur a day before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Guardiola steered Manchester to a 5-0 triumph versus Newcastle, taking them three points off the top of the standings with three games available. The city now possesses a better goal difference than Liverpool, as well as a buffer in the \u2018goals, scored\u2019 column, provided the crown comes crashing down to those statistics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">With three matches ahead, City possesses 86 points to Liverpool\u2019s 83, and City does have a four-goal cushion over Liverpool. To claim the championship, Pep Guardiola\u2019s squad needs seven points from their remaining 3 matches.\u00a0<\/span>On Tuesday, Liverpool will encounter Aston Villa, while City will meet Wolverhampton Wanderers the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool drop points as they tie against Tottenham Hotspur. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":34075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[219,2604,220,266,48],"class_list":["post-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-real-madrid","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606","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\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}