{"id":82541,"date":"2026-02-08T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82541"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:40:00","slug":"arsenal-extend-lead-as-united-chelsea-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/08\/arsenal-extend-lead-as-united-chelsea-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Extend Lead as United, Chelsea Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal tightened their grip on the Premier League title race on Saturday with a convincing 3-0 win over Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>After a goalless first half, Martin Zubimendi broke the deadlock before substitute Viktor Gyokeres struck twice to seal the victory, moving Mikel Arteta\u2019s side nine points clear at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United also boosted their top-four hopes with a 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford. Spurs were reduced to 10 men in the second half, and United capitalised as Bryan Mbeumo opened the scoring before Bruno Fernandes added a late second.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea kept their European push on track with a 3-1 away victory over Wolves. Cole Palmer scored a first-half hat-trick to put the Blues in control, and they held firm after Wolves pulled one back.<\/p>\n<p>In another Saturday fixture, West Ham defeated Burnley 2-0 to deepen the Clarets\u2019 relegation troubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Arsenal tightened their grip on the Premier League title race on Saturday with a convincing 3-0 win over Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium. After a goalless first half, Martin Zubimendi broke the deadlock before substitute Viktor Gyokeres struck twice to seal the victory, moving Mikel Arteta\u2019s side nine points clear at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":82542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82541","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82543,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82541\/revisions\/82543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}