{"id":58948,"date":"2025-01-05T06:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T06:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58948"},"modified":"2025-01-05T06:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T06:57:33","slug":"epl-arsenal-held-to-1-1-draw-at-brighton-title-hopes-dented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/05\/epl-arsenal-held-to-1-1-draw-at-brighton-title-hopes-dented\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Arsenal Held to 1-1 Draw at Brighton, Title Hopes Dented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s Premier League title bid suffered a setback as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Brighton &amp; Hove Albion at the Amex Stadium on January 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The result denied Mikel Arteta\u2019s side a chance to close the gap on leaders Liverpool, who remain five points ahead after playing two more matches.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen-year-old Ethan Nwaneri, stepping in for the injured Bukayo Saka, gave Arsenal the lead in the first half, boosting their hopes of a fourth consecutive league win.<\/p>\n<p>However, Brighton equalized just after the hour mark through Joao Pedro\u2019s controversial penalty, awarded after a clash of heads with William Saliba.<\/p>\n<p>The decision left Arteta visibly frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal remain second, trailing Liverpool, who face a struggling Manchester United next.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Manchester City strengthened their position with a dominant 4-1 victory over West Ham United.<\/p>\n<p>An own goal from Vladimir Coufal and strikes from Phil Foden and Erling Haaland\u2014who now has 16 league goals, one behind Mohamed Salah\u2014sealed City\u2019s first back-to-back wins since October.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the win, Pep Guardiola cautioned that City are still not at their best and dismissed suggestions that they have fully regained their dominant form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Arsenal\u2019s Premier League title bid suffered a setback as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Brighton &amp; Hove Albion at the Amex Stadium on January 4, 2025. The result denied Mikel Arteta\u2019s side a chance to close the gap on leaders Liverpool, who remain five points ahead after playing two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58948","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58950,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58948\/revisions\/58950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}