{"id":132322,"date":"2022-09-19T00:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/three-talking-points-from-the-premier-league-weekend"},"modified":"2023-01-22T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T21:23:22","slug":"three-talking-points-from-the-premier-league-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/three-talking-points-from-the-premier-league-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Three talking points from the Premier League weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta&#8217;s Arsenal are top of the Premier League after beating Brentford 3-0 \/AFP Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham took advantage of a reduced Premier League schedule due to policing pressures ahead of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s funeral as the top three pulled clear at the top of the table. City and Arsenal were comfortable 3-0 winners on the road at Wolves and Brentford respectively, while Tottenham&#8217;s 6-2 demolition of Leicester left the Foxes still rooted to the foot of the table. West Ham are also struggling to match the standards they have set in recent seasons as a 1-0 defeat at Everton left the Hammers in the bottom three heading into an international break. AFP Sports looks at three talking points from the Premier League weekend. Are Arsenal title contenders? Brentford boss Thomas Frank was fulsome in his praise for the Gunners as he tipped Mikel Arteta&#8217;s men to challenge City for the title. Arsenal have not been champions of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham took advantage of a reduced Premier League schedule due to policing pressures ahead of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s funeral as the top three pulled clear at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,58],"class_list":["post-132322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}