{"id":32248,"date":"2025-02-03T16:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/arsenals-rout-of-manchester-city-shows-how-great-empires-end\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:29:38","slug":"arsenals-rout-of-manchester-city-shows-how-great-empires-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/arsenals-rout-of-manchester-city-shows-how-great-empires-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal\u2019s rout of Manchester City shows how great empires end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola was thought to have stabilised City\u2019s form, but Sunday\u2019s 5-1 demolition by Arsenal shows that the champions\u2019 reign is now surely over<\/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 for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the time Ethan Nwaneri whipped in <em>Arsenal<\/em>\u2019s fifth, the mood at the Emirates was euphoric. The 17-year-old\u2019s finish, arced into the bottom corner from that inside-right position through which so many of Arsenal\u2019s attacks had come, felt like the perfect finale to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/feb\/02\/arsenal-manchester-city-premier-league-match-report\">a dominant 5-1 win<\/a> over reigning Premier League champions Manchester City. And it was, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>Its youthful chutzpah seemed an appropriate way to round off a win in which 18-year-old Myles Lewis-Skelly had been the most eye-catching player, having scored the third goal with an impudent shimmy into the box. Yet there was a strange realisation on seeing the replay. Nwaneri\u2019s finish hadn\u2019t nestled in that close to the corner of the goal; it wasn\u2019t quite as good as it had initially appeared. And that felt emblematic of the game as a whole.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/feb\/03\/manchester-city-arsenal-premier-league\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola was thought to have stabilised City\u2019s form, but Sunday\u2019s 5-1 demolition by Arsenal shows that the champions\u2019 reign is now surely over Sign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here By the time Ethan Nwaneri whipped in Arsenal\u2019s fifth, the mood at the Emirates was euphoric. The 17-year-old\u2019s finish, arced into the bottom &#8230; <a title=\"Arsenal\u2019s rout of Manchester City shows how great empires end\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/arsenals-rout-of-manchester-city-shows-how-great-empires-end\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arsenal\u2019s rout of Manchester City shows how great empires end\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-32248","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\/32248","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}