{"id":27382,"date":"2024-04-16T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=27382"},"modified":"2024-04-16T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T09:05:07","slug":"declan-rice-arsenal-still-in-title-race-despite-aston-villa-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/16\/declan-rice-arsenal-still-in-title-race-despite-aston-villa-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Rice: Arsenal Still in Title Race Despite Aston Villa Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice remains optimistic about Arsenal&#8217;s title chances despite their 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa at the Emirates on Sunday. The loss dashed hopes of overtaking Manchester City, who had secured a convincing victory over Luton Town the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>Rice emphasized that Arsenal&#8217;s position in the title race is still strong, pointing out that their rivals are also prone to dropping points. &#8220;It\u2019s not over yet,&#8221; Rice asserted. &#8220;We\u2019re in an unbelievable position. We\u2019re still ready, we\u2019re still fully focused on what we want to do and what we can achieve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Arsenal faces a tough challenge in the UEFA Champions League, with a trip to the Allianz Arena to face Bayern Munich in the second leg. Despite setbacks in the domestic league, Rice&#8217;s comments reflect a determined mindset within the Arsenal camp as they aim to bounce back and maintain their competitive edge in both domestic and European competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice remains optimistic about Arsenal&#8217;s title chances despite their 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa at the Emirates on Sunday. The loss dashed hopes of overtaking Manchester City, who had secured a convincing victory over Luton Town the previous day. Rice emphasized that Arsenal&#8217;s position in the title race is still strong, pointing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":27383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[319,819],"class_list":["post-27382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-rice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27404,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382\/revisions\/27404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}