{"id":9001,"date":"2022-02-09T18:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/09\/raheem-sterling-sets-bizarre-premier-league-record-as-manchester-city-sweep-aside-brentford\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T18:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:01:50","slug":"raheem-sterling-sets-bizarre-premier-league-record-as-manchester-city-sweep-aside-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/09\/raheem-sterling-sets-bizarre-premier-league-record-as-manchester-city-sweep-aside-brentford\/","title":{"rendered":"Raheem Sterling sets bizarre Premier League record as Manchester City sweep aside Brentford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Raheem Sterling set a new Premier League record as Manchester City continued to storm ahead of the competition, sweeping Brentford aside courtesy of a 2-0 scoreline, and sending the Citizens 12 points clear of Liverpool in second place, although Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side do have two games in hand.<\/p>\n<p>After a close opening half an hour, Riyad Mahrez calmed any nerves that Pep Guardiola and co. may have had coming into the tie, stroking home from the spot after Raheem Sterling was adjudged to have been fouled in the box by Mads Roerslev.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on the hour mark, it was Kevin De Bruyne\u2019s chance to capitalise on another mistake from Thomas Frank\u2019s side, as he put the result beyond doubt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FT: Man City 2-0 Brentford<\/p>\n<p>Another Premier League win for the hosts, who mercilessly capitalise on two errors from Brentford ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BENl9iw0uI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BENl9iw0uI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btsportfootball\/status\/1491526812358303747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Sterling sets new record<\/h2>\n<p>And, in winning the penalty, Raheem Sterling set a new Premier League record. The English forward has now won the most spot-kicks in Premier League history, with a whopping 23 across his career to date.<\/p>\n<p>At 26 years old, should he remain in England he will have plenty of time to add to that tally in the years to come, and he has certainly developed a knack of forcing officials to point to the spot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Some stat!<\/p>\n<p>??? Listen on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSounds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCSounds<\/a> and follow live \u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bbcfootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bbcfootball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/1491512067563692033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Love it or hate it, there is no doubt that Sterling, like Harry Kane and many other players in the top flight, have cottoned onto the fact that you simply will not help your side by \u2018staying on your feet\u2019 as pundits and fans alike urge them too. Rarely are spot-kicks given for players who are fouled but don\u2019t go down.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/defensive-reinforcements-desperately-needed-and-three-things-we-learned-as-tottenham-slump-to-defeat-against-southampton\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Defensive reinforcements desperately needed and three things we learned as Tottenham slump to defeat against Southampton<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/wouldnt-make-my-5-a-side-team-tottenham-fans-single-out-pair-of-underperformers-in-southampton-clash\/\" rel=\"v:url\">\u2018Wouldn\u2019t make my 5-a-side team\u2019 Tottenham fans single out pair of underperformers in Southampton clash<\/a><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raheem Sterling set a new Premier League record as Manchester City continued to storm ahead of the competition, sweeping Brentford aside courtesy of a 2-0 scoreline, and sending the Citizens 12 points clear of Liverpool in second place, although Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side do have two games in hand. After a close opening half an hour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-9001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}