{"id":82132,"date":"2026-01-26T07:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82132"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:10:44","slug":"united-shatter-arsenal-home-fortress-in-dramatic-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/26\/united-shatter-arsenal-home-fortress-in-dramatic-win\/","title":{"rendered":"United Shatter Arsenal Home Fortress in Dramatic Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United staged a thrilling late comeback to beat Arsenal 3-2 at the Emirates Stadium, denting the Gunners\u2019 title hopes and reigniting the Premier League race.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal, who started the match top of the table, took the lead in the 29th minute when United defender Lisandro Mart\u00ednez scored an own goal under pressure. United hit back eight minutes later as Bryan Mbeumo equalised to send both sides into the break level.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors went ahead early in the second half through Patrick Dorgu, before Arsenal mounted a strong response. Mikel Merino restored parity in the 84th minute, raising hopes of a late turnaround for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>However, Matheus Cunha had the final say, firing in a stunning long-range effort in the 87th minute to seal all three points for United.<br \/>\nThe defeat was Arsenal\u2019s first home league loss of the season, while the victory boosted Manchester United\u2019s push for a top-four finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Manchester United staged a thrilling late comeback to beat Arsenal 3-2 at the Emirates Stadium, denting the Gunners\u2019 title hopes and reigniting the Premier League race. Arsenal, who started the match top of the table, took the lead in the 29th minute when United defender Lisandro Mart\u00ednez scored an own goal under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82132","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\/82132","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=82132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82134,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82132\/revisions\/82134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}