{"id":15699,"date":"2023-09-30T20:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15699"},"modified":"2023-09-30T20:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:03:31","slug":"epl-man-utd-struggles-continue-as-crystal-palace-claim-impressive-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15699","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Man Utd Struggles Continue As Crystal Palace Claim Impressive Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Manchester United\u2019s rot in form in the league continued Saturday afternoon as they suffered a second successive defeat at home to Crystal Palace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joachim Andersen\u2019s superb strike was the difference with Palace claiming an impressive victory at Old Trafford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite resting a number of first-team players for that game, Roy Hodgson\u2019s side were a different proposition as they produced the perfect away performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After Tyrick Mitchell cleared Rasmus Hojlund\u2019s effort off the line, Palace took the lead when Andersen superbly drove a first-time effort into the top corner after a free-kick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Manchester United piled on the pressure after that but struggled to find a way through the Palace defence. When they did they found goalkeeper Sam Johnstone in superb form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Johnstone made two crucial saves in the second half to preserve Palace\u2019s lead, first pushing over Bruno Fernandes\u2019 dipping effort before keeping out Hojlund\u2019s bullet header.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Palace goal continued to live a charmed life but Manchester United could not find a way through as the visitors secured a win that moved them above their opponents to ninth, with the hosts dropping to 10th.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United\u2019s rot in form in the league continued Saturday afternoon as they suffered a second successive defeat at home to Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6394,223,4266],"class_list":["post-15699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-crystal-palace","tag-epl","tag-man-utd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15701,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions\/15701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}