{"id":81154,"date":"2026-01-04T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81154"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:19:55","slug":"man-united-held-1-1-by-leeds-at-elland-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/04\/man-united-held-1-1-by-leeds-at-elland-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United Held 1-1 by Leeds at Elland Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United dropped points on Sunday after playing out a 1-1 draw with rivals Leeds United in a Premier League clash at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds took the lead in the second half when Brenden Aaronson capitalised on a defensive lapse to delight the home supporters.<\/p>\n<p>United responded quickly, with Matheus Cunha equalising minutes later after an assist from substitute Joshua Zirkzee.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams created chances in an open and intense contest, but neither could find a late winner.<\/p>\n<p>The result extends United\u2019s struggle for consistency away from home, while Leeds will be encouraged by another strong showing against a top opponent.<\/p>\n<p>United now turn attention to their next league fixture as manager Ruben Amorim seeks a return to winning ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Manchester United dropped points on Sunday after playing out a 1-1 draw with rivals Leeds United in a Premier League clash at Elland Road. Leeds took the lead in the second half when Brenden Aaronson capitalised on a defensive lapse to delight the home supporters. United responded quickly, with Matheus Cunha equalising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81154","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\/81154","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=81154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81156,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81154\/revisions\/81156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}