{"id":80894,"date":"2025-12-28T08:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80894"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:32:39","slug":"premier-league-arsenal-city-liverpool-win-in-boxing-day-thrillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/28\/premier-league-arsenal-city-liverpool-win-in-boxing-day-thrillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Arsenal, City, Liverpool Win in Boxing Day Thrillers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Premier League Boxing Day fixtures delivered excitement on Friday as title contenders and mid-table teams fought for vital points.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal bounced back with a 2-1 win over Brighton to remain in the title hunt, while Liverpool edged Wolves 2-1 at Anfield to compound the visitors\u2019 struggles.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa continued their fine form with a 2-1 comeback victory away at Chelsea, strengthening their top-four push. Manchester City also secured a hard-fought 2-1 win over Nottingham Forest to maintain pressure at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Brentford thrashed Bournemouth 4-1, Fulham claimed a 1-0 London derby win over West Ham, and Burnley and Everton played out a goalless draw.<\/p>\n<p>The results tightened the title race and increased pressure on teams battling at the lower end of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Premier League Boxing Day fixtures delivered excitement on Friday as title contenders and mid-table teams fought for vital points. Arsenal bounced back with a 2-1 win over Brighton to remain in the title hunt, while Liverpool edged Wolves 2-1 at Anfield to compound the visitors\u2019 struggles. Aston Villa continued their fine form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80894","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=80894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80896,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80894\/revisions\/80896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}