{"id":31585,"date":"2025-09-21T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=31585"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:54:33","slug":"premier-league-manchester-united-beat-chelsea-2-1-at-old-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/premier-league-manchester-united-beat-chelsea-2-1-at-old-trafford\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Manchester United Beat Chelsea 2-1 at Old Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>September 21, Sunday:<\/strong> Manchester United secured a crucial 2-1 win over Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday night, in a match that had drama, goals, and red cards in abundance.<\/p>\n<p>The match was off to a boisterous start with Chelsea&#8217;s goalkeeper Robert S\u00e1nchez being shown the marching orders in the 5th minute, leaving the visitors with 10 men. United wasted no time at all, and Bruno Fernandes capitalized on a beautiful pass from Dorgu in the 14th minute to put the hosts in the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Casemiro doubled United&#8217;s advantage in the 37th minute and had United well in control. But the Brazilian first became a hero and then a villain during the first half when he received a second yellow card during stoppage time that had United reduced to 10 men as well.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea pushed hard in the second half and were rewarded when Trevoh Chalobah&#8217;s goal in the 80th minute gave them a consolation. The Blues, despite throwing all the pressure at them late in the game, were unable to get the equalizer, and United rode into town with vital three points.<\/p>\n<p>The victory lifts Manchester United into position 10 on the standings with 7 points from 5 games, while Chelsea remain at position 6 with 8 points from an equal number of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 21, Sunday: Manchester United secured a crucial 2-1 win over Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday night, in a match that had drama, goals, and red cards in abundance. The match was off to a boisterous start with Chelsea&#8217;s goalkeeper Robert S\u00e1nchez being shown the marching orders in the 5th minute, leaving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31587,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31585\/revisions\/31587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}