{"id":1145,"date":"2012-11-04T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2012-11-04T12:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T12:55:02","slug":"premier-league-review-saturday-03rd-november-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/premier-league-review-saturday-03rd-november-2012-1145\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League review: Saturday 03rd November 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1147\" src=\"http:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/robin-van-persie-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/robin-van-persie-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/robin-van-persie.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Saturday\u2019s Premier League fixtures kicked off early at Old Trafford, where Manchester United defeated Arsenal 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Former-Gunners striker Robin van Persie was always going to have a big say in this clash and it took just three minutes for him to have an effect on this game.<\/p>\n<p>Full-back Rafael\u2019s cross was poorly dealt with by Thomas Vermaelen and the Dutchman nipped in to fire past Vito Mannone from 20 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United were awarded a penalty just before half-time after midfielder Santi Cazorla handled the ball in the area.<\/p>\n<p>England striker Wayne Rooney stepped up and fired wide from the penalty spot. Rooney did have a big hand in the second goal though. The mercurial England international crossed for full-back Patrice Evra to head past Mannone in the Arsenal goal in the 67<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s day got worse in the 69<sup>th<\/sup> minute as midfielder Jack Wilshere was dismissed for a second bookable offence. Arsenal got a consolation goal in injury-time, midfielder Santi Cazorla curling home an excellent effort from inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>United went top with that victory and they knocked Chelsea off the summit. Roberto Di Matteo\u2019s team only drew 1-1 at Swansea, despite leading the game until the 88<sup>th<\/sup> minute. Chelsea took the lead in the 61<sup>st<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Victor Moses headed home from an Eden Hazard cross which was knocked on by Gary Cahill. Chelsea looked to be set to claim a victory until the 88<sup>th<\/sup> minute. Spanish midfielder Pablo Hernandez struck an effort from just outside the area to level the scores late-on.<\/p>\n<p>Wigan secured a surprise 1-0 away win at Tottenham. The only goal of the game came in the 56<sup>th<\/sup> minute. Former-Crystal Palace midfielder Ben Watson volleyed home from close range to give the Latics maximum points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Premier League Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fulham 2-2 Everton<\/p>\n<p>Norwich 1-0 Stoke<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland 0-1 Aston Villa<\/p>\n<p>West Ham 0-0 Manchester City<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Are Manchester United now favourites for the Premier League title?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday\u2019s Premier League fixtures kicked off early at Old Trafford, where Manchester United defeated Arsenal 2-1. Former-Gunners striker Robin van Persie was always going to have a big say in this clash and it took just three minutes for him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[85,30,182,232,601,38,121,265,72,359,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballcosmos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}