{"id":23330,"date":"2026-04-20T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=23330"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:46:17","slug":"haaland-fires-city-to-crucial-victory-over-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/04\/20\/haaland-fires-city-to-crucial-victory-over-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland Fires City To Crucial Victory Over Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">Erling Haaland&#8217;s second-half strike fired City to a priceless 2-1 Etihad win over leaders Arsenal and within three points of the Premier League summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Amidst a raucous Etihad backdrop, Rayan Cherki had fired City into a 16th minute lead after bamboozling the Gunners defence with a sublime piece of skill before drilling home a sweetly struck shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Within 30 seconds however Arsenal drew level through Kai Havertz after the Gunners striker harried an attempted Gianluigi Donnarumma clearance with the ball ricocheting into the net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">In what was an intense, high quality affair, Arsenal twice struck the post after the break through Eberechi Eze and Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">However, a relentless City, who had also struck the woodwork twice through Cherki and Haaland, were not to be denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">And, as so often, it was Haaland who delivered, the striker firing home on 65 minutes to lift the roof off the Etihad and secure a huge three points to move us to within three of the Gunners &#8211; and with a precious game in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland&#8217;s second-half strike fired City to a priceless 2-1 Etihad win over leaders Arsenal and within three points of the Premier League summit. Amidst a raucous Etihad backdrop, Rayan Cherki had fired City into a 16th minute lead after bamboozling the Gunners defence with a sublime piece of skill before drilling home a sweetly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23334,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions\/23334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}