{"id":9714,"date":"2023-12-07T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T10:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T10:38:04","slug":"mctominay-brace-earns-united-vital-win-over-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/07\/mctominay-brace-earns-united-vital-win-over-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"McTominay Brace Earns United Vital Win Over Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Scott McTominay\u2019s brace sealed a much-needed victory for Manchester United and their under-fire manager Erik ten Hag against Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s Chelsea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s Old Trafford encounter pitted together a pair of Premier League giants going through growing pains as they seek to become contenders again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>United were under extra pressure heading into the match following reports of player unhappiness with Ten Hag, whose side reacted with a spirited 2-1 victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>McTominay was the hero as the Dutchman\u2019s side deservedly overcame the Blues, whose manager Pochettino was considered his main rival for the United post when he was appointed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>The homegrown midfielder\u2019s first goal came midway through a first half that began with Robert Sanchez saving a Bruno Fernandes penalty and ended with a fine leveller from former Manchester City midfielder Cole Palmer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>McTominay put the hosts back ahead with a powerful header and Chelsea substitute Armando Broja saw a late header hit the post as United bounced back from Saturday\u2019s lifeless loss at Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag made four alterations from St James\u2019 Park \u2013 with Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial among those dropping to the bench \u2013 and was rewarded with a strong start.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott McTominay\u2019s brace sealed a much-needed victory for Manchester United and their under-fire manager Erik ten Hag against Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s Chelsea. Wednesday\u2019s Old Trafford encounter pitted together a pair of Premier League giants going through growing pains as they seek to become contenders again. United were under extra pressure heading into the match following reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-manchester-united"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9850,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/9850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}