{"id":28513,"date":"2024-12-16T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/this-season-is-a-reminder-of-how-hard-it-is-to-dominate-the-premier-league\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T17:35:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:35:58","slug":"this-season-is-a-reminder-of-how-hard-it-is-to-dominate-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/this-season-is-a-reminder-of-how-hard-it-is-to-dominate-the-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"This season is a reminder of how hard it is to dominate the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, fascinatingly, every game seems fraught with possibility, even if that has meant mostly pain for the struggling champions, Manchester City<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/jul\/20\/sign-up-for-soccer-with-jonathan-wilson-his-free-weekly-newsletter-on-european-soccer\">Sign up to Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes the only explanation that makes sense is that football is governed not by the laws of physics, by data and xG and logic, but that it is in fact a malevolent deity, capricious and mischievous and that sometimes it turns on you and there\u2019s really not much that can be done.<\/p>\n<p>The Manchester derby had been a largely dreadful game between two tentative sides, lacking confidence and conviction, poking and prodding and giving very little indication they\u2019ve been the two most successful clubs over the history of the Premier League. But City had had all three of the shots on target in the first half and, in that sense, were worth the lead given them when Jo\u0161ko Gvardiol headed in Kevin De Bruyne\u2019s deflected cross, a goal that would have seemed freakish had it not been the eighth United have conceded from a corner this season, and the fourth under Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2024\/dec\/16\/manchester-derby-united-city-premier-league\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, fascinatingly, every game seems fraught with possibility, even if that has meant mostly pain for the struggling champions, Manchester City Sign up to Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here Sometimes the only explanation that makes sense is that football is governed not by the laws of physics, by data and xG and logic, but that &#8230; <a title=\"This season is a reminder of how hard it is to dominate the Premier League\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/this-season-is-a-reminder-of-how-hard-it-is-to-dominate-the-premier-league\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about This season is a reminder of how hard it is to dominate the Premier League\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}