{"id":80655,"date":"2025-12-21T06:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80655"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:02:06","slug":"arsenal-beat-everton-1-0-to-keep-title-push-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/21\/arsenal-beat-everton-1-0-to-keep-title-push-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Beat Everton 1-0 to Keep Title Push Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal sustained their Premier League title challenge with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners claimed the decisive goal in the 27th minute, with Viktor Gy\u00f6keres converting from the penalty spot after a VAR review confirmed a handball.<\/p>\n<p>Everton began brightly, but Arsenal gradually took control, dominating possession and creating the clearer chances as the contest wore on.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors pushed for a second goal after the break but were kept at bay by Everton\u2019s defence, while the hosts were unable to find an equaliser despite late pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The win extends Arsenal\u2019s unbeaten run and keeps them firmly in the title race as attention turns to the busy festive fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Everton, meanwhile, were left to rue missed opportunities as they continue their climb up the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Arsenal sustained their Premier League title challenge with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday. The Gunners claimed the decisive goal in the 27th minute, with Viktor Gy\u00f6keres converting from the penalty spot after a VAR review confirmed a handball. Everton began brightly, but Arsenal gradually took control, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80655","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=80655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80657,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80655\/revisions\/80657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}