{"id":116273,"date":"2019-10-26T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/26\/manchester-citys-raheem-sterling-breaks-aston-villas-resistance\/"},"modified":"2019-10-26T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:43:05","slug":"manchester-citys-raheem-sterling-breaks-aston-villas-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=116273","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City\u2019s Raheem Sterling breaks Aston Villa\u2019s resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City stuttered, then moved into high gear, three second-half goals ensuring victory and the cutting the gap to Liverpool two points, at least until the leaders entertain Tottenham on Sunday afternoon. Though Pep Guardiola will be pleased with this win over an Aston Villa side who came to play he may wish his men had been more ruthless, an issue he recently highlighted.A sour note for City arrived towards then end when Fernandinho received a second yellow card \u2013 for a foul on Keinan Davis \u2013 and so will be suspended for one match. Given the injury to Rodri, Guardiola\u2019s other natural holding midfielder, and the centre-back Aymeric Laporte\u2019s long-term knee problem, the manager could have done without this. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/oct\/26\/manchester-city-aston-villa-premier-league-match-report\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City\u2019s Raheem Sterling breaks Aston Villa\u2019s resistance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City stuttered, then moved into high gear, three second-half goals ensuring victory and the cutting the gap to Liverpool two points, at least until the leaders entertain Tottenham on Sunday afternoon. Though Pep Guardiola will be pleased with this win over an Aston Villa side who came to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}