{"id":402073,"date":"2011-04-27T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/27\/nigel-de-jong-manchester-city-can-overtake-arsenal-to-finish-in-third\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T14:41:00","slug":"nigel-de-jong-manchester-city-can-overtake-arsenal-to-finish-in-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/nigel-de-jong-manchester-city-can-overtake-arsenal-to-finish-in-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel de Jong: Manchester City can overtake Arsenal to finish in third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Steve Hewlett<\/h3>\n<h4>27 Apr 2011 15:41:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"60.4025282768\">\n<div readability=\"14.5894736842\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nigel De Jong,Manchester City(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6c7a0861113843_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nigel De Jong,Manchester City(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"20.2538071066\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a>\u2019s combative midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/netherlands\/4138\/nigel-de-jong\">Nigel de Jong<\/a> has said he believes his side can finish in third place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\">Premier League<\/a> if the team keeps its focus.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are sitting in the final Champions League spot but are only five points behind Arsenal and have a game in hand on the Gunners, with Tottenham four points further behind City.<\/p>\n<p>Should City win their game in hand and defeat Spurs at Eastlands next month a top-three finish may not be out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we keep our focus then of course we can challenge for third place but all we can do is keep winning and see what happens.&#8221; De Jong told the club\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in the top four and that is where we want to stay and the way to do that is to not think about the future only the next match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De Jong was man of the match in Monday\u2019s victory over Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park in a game which saw Edin Dzeko score his first Premier League goal for the club, and the Dutchman was pleased with the whole team\u2019s contribution to the win.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThis is a collective effort. Last weekend was a good one for Manchester City and now our job as a team is to make sure that next weekend is a good one too.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3b4e10aebeacon.dll_120.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/27\/2460643\/nigel-de-jong-manchester-city-can-overtake-arsenal-to-finish\" title=\"Nigel de Jong: Manchester City can overtake Arsenal to finish in third\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigel de Jong: Manchester City can overtake Arsenal to finish in third<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Steve Hewlett 27 Apr 2011 15:41:00 Nigel De Jong,Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City \u2019s combative midfielder Nigel de Jong has said he believes his side can finish in third place in the Premier League if the team keeps its focus. The Blues are sitting in the final Champions League spot but are only five points behind Arsenal and have a game in hand on the Gunners, with Tottenham four points further behind City. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":402074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigel de Jong: Manchester City can overtake Arsenal to finish in third - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/nigel-de-jong-manchester-city-can-overtake-arsenal-to-finish-in-third\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigel de Jong: Manchester City can overtake Arsenal to finish in third - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Steve Hewlett 27 Apr 2011 15:41:00 Nigel De Jong,Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City \u2019s combative midfielder Nigel de Jong has said he believes his side can finish in third place in the Premier League if the team keeps its focus. 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