{"id":28127,"date":"2024-04-20T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-how-liverpool-caused-arsenals-2-0-defeat-to-aston-villa-alexander-arnold\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:00:16","slug":"epl-how-liverpool-caused-arsenals-2-0-defeat-to-aston-villa-alexander-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-how-liverpool-caused-arsenals-2-0-defeat-to-aston-villa-alexander-arnold\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: How Liverpool caused Arsenal\u2019s 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa \u2013 Alexander-Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold has said Arsenal lost to Aston Villa last Sunday because they were \u201cexcited\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Alexander-Arnold came on as a substitute, but could not stop his team from losing 1-0 at home to Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, the Gunners missed the chance to go top, as they were beaten 2-0 by Aston Villa at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf those fixtures were reversed and we played second and Arsenal played first maybe it would\u2019ve been a different mentality. It all comes down to mentality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our result played a part in Arsenal\u2019s result. They have potentially got too excited and thought this is our chance, this is what we need to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they overthought things whereas if us and City both won it made them think, \u2018we need to just win\u2019 rather than it being a chance to breakaway from the pack. None of us have been in a three-horse race, so it\u2019s difficult,\u201d Alexander-Arnold said.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: How Liverpool caused Arsenal\u2019s 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa \u2013 Alexander-Arnold<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold has said Arsenal lost to Aston Villa last Sunday because they were \u201cexcited\u201d. Earlier in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11917,4130,6214,194,1030,15,160],"tags":[11918,237,6216,156,719,180,201,6215],"class_list":["post-28127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alexander-arnold","category-arsenal","category-aston-villa","category-epl","category-liverpool","category-news","category-sport","tag-alexander-arnold","tag-arsenal","tag-aston","tag-epl","tag-liverpool","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}