{"id":1249592,"date":"2022-11-12T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/12\/pl-toney-scores-twice-as-brentford-stun-man-city\/"},"modified":"2022-11-12T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:56:20","slug":"pl-toney-scores-twice-as-brentford-stun-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/12\/pl-toney-scores-twice-as-brentford-stun-man-city\/","title":{"rendered":"PL: Toney scores twice as Brentford stun\u00a0Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/3488720-71121568-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"3488720-71121568-2560-1440\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Manchester City missed the chance to move to the Premier League summit as Pep Guardiola\u2019s champions signed off ahead of the World Cup with a shock 2-1 loss against Brentford at Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors made a bright start and deservedly took the lead on 16 minutes when Ivan Toney nodded home Ben Mee\u2019s flick-on.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Brentford forward\u2019s 17th league goal of 2022 and a timely early reminder of his quality following his omission from England\u2019s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>City improved as the half wore on and levelled seconds before the interval when Phil Foden lashed a rising shot beyond David Raya.<\/p>\n<p>The home side dominated following the interval but found it difficult to break down a resilient visiting rearguard.<\/p>\n<p>Toney looked like he had passed up the chance to secure a shock win when he could not squeeze a shot beyond Ederson but minutes later grabbed the winner.<\/p>\n<p>The result sees City remain in second place, two points adrift of Arsenal who play Wolves later on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Brentford are next in league action on Boxing Day when they entertain Tottenham. Man City return two days later at Leeds United.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Nu0e2jH5ZFE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teacher Unions Call Off Strike Action - Adom TV News (11-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nu0e2jH5ZFE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City missed the chance to move to the Premier League summit as Pep Guardiola\u2019s champions signed off ahead of the World Cup with a shock 2-1 loss against Brentford at Etihad Stadium. The visitors made a bright start and deservedly took the lead on 16 minutes when Ivan Toney nodded home Ben Mee\u2019s flick-on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1957,1761,2929,28821,25182],"class_list":{"0":"post-1249592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brentford","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-scores","11":"tag-stunman","12":"tag-toney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}