{"id":13999,"date":"2020-10-22T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=13999"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:51:44","slug":"premier-league-early-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/premier-league-early-start\/premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Early Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Premier League kicks off again tomorrow night, with Leeds taking on Villa.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10704\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10704\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189-25x17.jpg 25w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1712029189.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Villa are surprising football fans this year with their form.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019re reading this on a Thursday you may be confused, but yes, match day 6 is starting early this weekend &#8211; which Im sure football fans will be delighted about.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds have a slight disadvantage, as they played on Monday too, giving Villa more time to train and work on their mistakes from the previous game. The visitors, Leeds, will be at an extra disadvantage because they\u2019re away to a very strong Villa side. Aston Villa have been playing with passion and aggression all season, winning against the former champions 7-2, and surprising the football world.<\/p>\n<p>But that isn\u2019t to say Leeds haven\u2019t done the same! Leeds, despite only just coming up to the Premier League (for the first time in years), have won tough games, and put in good performances against top teams.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the upcoming fixtures are below, with this weekend set to be one of the best ones yet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sportspress sp-widget-align-none\"><h4 class=\"sp-table-caption\">Fixtures<\/h4><div class=\"sp-template sp-template-event-blocks\">\n\t<div class=\"sp-table-wrapper\">\n\t\t<table class=\"sp-event-blocks sp-data-table sp-paginated-table\" data-sp-rows=\"10\">\n\t\t\t<thead><tr><th><\/th><\/tr><\/thead> \t\t\t<tbody>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/tbody>\n\t\t<\/table>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League kicks off again tomorrow night, with Leeds taking on Villa.\u00a0 If you\u2019re reading this on a Thursday you may be confused, but yes, match day 6 is starting early this weekend &#8211; which Im sure football fans will be delighted about. Leeds have a slight disadvantage, as they played on Monday too,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":13270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[971,2242,2356,850,2241,1424,949],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","tag-football","tag-football-fixtures","tag-pl-news","tag-premier-league","tag-premier-league-fixtures","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14000,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions\/14000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}