{"id":77517,"date":"2025-10-26T16:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77517"},"modified":"2025-10-26T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:35:54","slug":"eze-sinks-former-club-as-arsenal-tighten-grip-on-premier-league-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/26\/eze-sinks-former-club-as-arsenal-tighten-grip-on-premier-league-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Eze Sinks Former Club as Arsenal Tighten Grip on Premier League Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"354\"><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"354\">\n<p data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"551\">Eberechi Eze came back to haunt his former side as Arsenal edged Crystal Palace 1\u20130 at the Emirates Stadium, extending their lead at the top of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"553\" data-end=\"822\">Eze, who joined Arsenal from Palace last summer for \u00a367.5 million, scored the decisive goal in the first half after Declan Rice\u2019s pass deflected off Isma\u00efla Sarr, setting up a powerful finish. The strike marked Eze\u2019s first league goal for the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"1110\">The victory was Arsenal\u2019s seventh consecutive win in all competitions, putting them four points clear at the summit. They now sit seven points ahead of Liverpool, who lost 2\u20130 at Brentford on Saturday, and six ahead of Manchester City, beaten by Aston Villa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1260\">Mikel Arteta\u2019s men will conclude October as league leaders before turning attention to their Carabao Cup clash against Brighton on November 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Eberechi Eze came back to haunt his former side as Arsenal edged Crystal Palace 1\u20130 at the Emirates Stadium, extending their lead at the top of the Premier League. Eze, who joined Arsenal from Palace last summer for \u00a367.5 million, scored the decisive goal in the first half after Declan Rice\u2019s pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77517","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\/77517","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77519,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77517\/revisions\/77519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}