{"id":2701,"date":"2026-01-17T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:48:34","slug":"premier-league-live-blog-manchester-derby-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"Premier League live blog: Manchester derby and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><button class=\"lc-load-more\" id=\"lc-load-more\" aria-label=\"Load more posts\">Load more<\/button><\/p>\n<p>The Premier League is back, starting with the small matter of a Manchester derby at Old Trafford, in Michael Carrick\u2019s first game as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Carrick replaced Ruben Amorim until the end of the season after the Portuguese was sacked earlier this month, with United in poor form having not won in four, and with one win in seven.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City, six points off Arsenal, are looking to steal a march on the leader, who face Nottingham Forest at the City Ground at 5.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Liverpool host lowly Burnley, while out-of-form Spurs host London rivals West Ham, who are looking fated to relegation from the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Bottom ad unit --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Custom pseudo content\/category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Topics --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Related Articles --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"spotlight--title font-sans font-bold text-white bg-black px-2 pb-1 text-2xl mt-8 mb-4 cgt-single_related\">\n\tRELATED ARTICLES<\/h2>\n<p><!-- Display for desktop --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Display for mobile --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Taboola feed --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Jobbio units --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- More from --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Content Query --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Sponsored story --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<h3 class=\"font-sans font-bold text-xl lg:text-2xl border-t-[5px] pt-1 pb-2 mt-8 capitalize\">Sponsored stories<\/h3>\n\n --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Load More Stories --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Premier #League #live #blog #Manchester #derby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Load more The Premier League is back, starting with the small matter of a Manchester derby at Old Trafford, in Michael Carrick\u2019s first game as head coach. Carrick replaced Ruben Amorim until the end of the season after the Portuguese was sacked earlier this month, with United in poor form having not won in four, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1905,1907,785,991,1906,1427,1420],"class_list":{"0":"post-2701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-blog","9":"tag-derby","10":"tag-league","11":"tag-live","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-premier","14":"tag-premier-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}