{"id":14286,"date":"2020-11-16T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=14286"},"modified":"2020-11-16T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T10:45:28","slug":"quick-english-football-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/quick-english-football-update\/premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick English Football Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The international break has had ups and down for all teams, especially the England national team.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9091\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9091\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_673499566-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_673499566-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_673499566-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_673499566-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_673499566-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_673499566-25x17.jpg 25w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_673499566-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_673499566.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Their most recent match, last night, was against hosts Belgium, and the performance was sub-par to say the least. The Lions didn\u2019t even manage to put a goal past the Belgians, and conceded two themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The first goal was a deflected strike from Leicester midfielder Tielemans, which went on to strike the post and creep behind Pickford. The second was an impressive free kick from Mertens, who is also playing exceptionally well in the Italian first league for Napoli. Despite trying hard, Kane and the England squad just couldn\u2019t score. The game ended 2-0 Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>In other news however, the premier league returns this weekend after a short break, and it\u2019s set to be a good one.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been a few weekends without a goal fest, so hopefully this weekend doesn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Current league leaders Leicester take on former Champions Liverpool in the highlight of the weekend, with Liverpool missing a few key players.<\/p>\n<p>It should be an interesting weekend. The rest of the fixtures are below.<\/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 international break has had ups and down for all teams, especially the England national team.\u00a0 Their most recent match, last night, was against hosts Belgium, and the performance was sub-par to say the least. The Lions didn\u2019t even manage to put a goal past the Belgians, and conceded two themselves. The first goal was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":9091,"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":[835,2064,769],"tags":[856,971,909,850,2241],"class_list":["post-14286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-football","category-football-news","category-premier-league","tag-england","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-premier-league","tag-premier-league-fixtures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286","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=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14287,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions\/14287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}