{"id":1673,"date":"2025-01-02T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2025-01-07T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:21:19","slug":"arsenal-beat-brentford-to-close-gap-on-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/arsenal-beat-brentford-to-close-gap-on-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal beat Brentford to close gap on Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal showed they can cope without the injured Bukayo Saka as they began the year in style by recovering from an early sucker-punch to beat Brentford 3-1 away and move back into second place in the Premier League on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Saka, arguably Arsenal&#8217;s most influential player this season, has been ruled out for at least two months after hamstring surgery, dealing a blow to the club&#8217;s title hopes.<\/p>\n<p>A visit to a Brentford side who have been dominant at home this season felt like a must-win game for Arsenal but things began badly as Bryan Mbeumo gave the hosts a 13th minute lead with the home side&#8217;s first attack.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal did not panic, though, and Gabriel Jesus continued his recent form to equalise before halftime with a diving header.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal showed they can cope without the injured Bukayo Saka as they began the year in style by recovering from an early sucker-punch to beat Brentford 3-1 away and move back into second place in the Premier League on Wednesday. Forward Saka, arguably Arsenal&#8217;s most influential player this season, has been ruled out for at [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}