{"id":1772,"date":"2014-02-12T22:25:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T22:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2014-02-16T05:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T05:54:56","slug":"united-stop-arsenal-from-going-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/united-stop-arsenal-from-going-top\/","title":{"rendered":"United Stop Arsenal From Returning To Top Of The Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal squandered an opportunity to return to the Premier League summit after drawing 0-0 with Manchester United at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams had suffered damaging results at the weekend, Arsenal crashing 5-1 at Liverpool and United drawing 2-2 at home to bottom club Fulham, and the tentativeness on either side made for a game of only sporadic excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Robin van Persie came closest to scoring for United, spurning an excellent early chance and later hitting the crossbar with a header, while Arsenal centre-back Laurent Koscielny had a header cleared of the line.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal would have gone top with victory, but the draw left Arsene Wenger&#8217;s side a point behind Chelsea in second place.<\/p>\n<p>For United it was another missed opportunity to make up ground on the teams in the Champions League places, ahead of a mid-season trip to Dubai when they will gird their loins for a high-stakes run-in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Arsenal squandered an opportunity to return to the Premier League summit after drawing 0-0 with Manchester United at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday. Both teams had suffered damaging results at the weekend, Arsenal crashing 5-1 at Liverpool and United drawing 2-2 at home to bottom club Fulham, and the tentativeness on either side made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}