{"id":82565,"date":"2026-02-09T06:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82565"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:34:49","slug":"82565","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/09\/82565\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace Shock Brighton as Man City Stun Liverpool at Anfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crystal Palace ended their 12-game winless run with a 1-0 victory over Brighton in Sunday\u2019s Premier League M23 derby.<\/p>\n<p>At the Amex Stadium, Ismaila Sarr scored the decisive goal in the 61st minute as Palace held on for a crucial win that eased relegation concerns and boosted manager Oliver Glasner.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton, meanwhile, struggled to break down a disciplined Palace defence and slipped to another disappointing result.<\/p>\n<p>At Anfield, Manchester City came from behind to beat Liverpool 2-1 in a dramatic late turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool took the lead in the 74th minute through a Dominik Szoboszlai free-kick, but City levelled in the 84th minute via Bernardo Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Deep into stoppage time, City were awarded a penalty after Matheus Nunes was fouled, and Erling Haaland converted to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>The match ended in controversy, with a late City goal ruled out by VAR and Szoboszlai shown a red card.<\/p>\n<p>City\u2019s win keeps them in the title race, while Liverpool were left to rue a costly collapse at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Crystal Palace ended their 12-game winless run with a 1-0 victory over Brighton in Sunday\u2019s Premier League M23 derby. At the Amex Stadium, Ismaila Sarr scored the decisive goal in the 61st minute as Palace held on for a crucial win that eased relegation concerns and boosted manager Oliver Glasner. Brighton, meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82565","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\/82565","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=82565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82568,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82565\/revisions\/82568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}