{"id":81279,"date":"2026-01-08T05:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81279"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:25:32","slug":"man-city-united-chelsea-drop-points-in-dramatic-premier-league-midweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/08\/man-city-united-chelsea-drop-points-in-dramatic-premier-league-midweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City, United, Chelsea Drop Points in Dramatic Premier League Midweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Premier League heavyweights endured a difficult midweek as Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea all dropped points in a round filled with goals and late drama.<\/p>\n<p>At St James\u2019 Park, Newcastle United claimed a thrilling 4-3 win over Leeds United, sealing victory with a stoppage-time goal after Leeds had taken the lead three times.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s poor run continued with a 2-1 home defeat to Fulham. Reduced to ten men early on, the Blues were punished by their London rivals in the heated derby.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United were held 2-2 by Burnley at Turf Moor despite twice leading, while defending champions Manchester City settled for a 1-1 draw against Brighton after failing to convert their dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Brentford thrashed Sunderland 3-0, Bournemouth stunned Tottenham Hotspur 3-2, Everton and Wolves drew 1-1, and Crystal Palace and Aston Villa played out a goalless draw.<\/p>\n<p>The midweek results favoured underdogs, leaving the title race and top-four battle wide open as the season enters a decisive stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Premier League heavyweights endured a difficult midweek as Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea all dropped points in a round filled with goals and late drama. At St James\u2019 Park, Newcastle United claimed a thrilling 4-3 win over Leeds United, sealing victory with a stoppage-time goal after Leeds had taken the lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81279","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\/81279","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=81279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81281,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81279\/revisions\/81281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}