{"id":4015,"date":"2023-11-26T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-rio-ferdinand-names-team-to-finish-above-liverpool-challenge-man-city\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:06:09","slug":"epl-rio-ferdinand-names-team-to-finish-above-liverpool-challenge-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-rio-ferdinand-names-team-to-finish-above-liverpool-challenge-man-city\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Rio Ferdinand names team to finish above Liverpool, challenge Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, has tipped Arsenal to challenge Manchester City for the Premier League title this season.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand was speaking on TNT Sports after the Gunners claimed a 1-0 win at Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>The result saw Mikel Arteta\u2019s men go top of the table after 13 points, following a 1-1 draw between Manchester City and Liverpool in the early kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ferdinand, Arsenal\u2019s centre-back partnership of William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes, give them an edge over the Reds in the title race.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have the best defence in the Premier League so far this season, conceding just 10 goals in 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two centre-backs, they\u2019ll be the reason why I would put them ahead of Liverpool in the title race to challenge someone like Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause you can trust those two implicitly at the moment,\u201d Ferdinand said.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Rio Ferdinand names team to finish above Liverpool, challenge Man City<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, has tipped Arsenal to challenge Manchester City for the Premier League title this season.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1030,1031,15,195,160],"tags":[1033,156,198,719,202,180,204,201],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-liverpool","category-man-city","category-news","category-rio-ferdinand","category-sport","tag-city","tag-epl","tag-ferdinand","tag-liverpool","tag-man","tag-news","tag-rio","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","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=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}