{"id":14326,"date":"2020-11-20T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=14326"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:49:57","slug":"the-premier-league-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/the-premier-league-returns\/premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"The Premier League Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Premier League is set to return this weekend and we couldn\u2019t be happier.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-200709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/DBF43C59-3705-41EB-BF21-CE8FD995E552-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There aren\u2019t any matches today, on the Friday unfortunately, but proceedings are kicking off again tomorrow as usual.<\/p>\n<p>The league has been on a two week break due to international football duties, but players from the Premier League aren\u2019t needed for these duties again for over 100 days &#8211; that\u2019s a lot of Premier league with no interruptions!<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the weekend is set to be Leicester v Liverpool &#8211; former champions v current league leaders. This won\u2019t be any ordinary game however, as almost the whole of the Liverpool starting lineup are injured or have Coronavirus. Salah, VVD, Gomez, Henderson, Fabinho, Trent AA, and Firmino are set to miss the match (just to name a few). Either way, it should still be a good match, but I\u2019m not counting on Liverpool to do anything special!<\/p>\n<p>The weekends 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 Premier League is set to return this weekend and we couldn\u2019t be happier.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t any matches today, on the Friday unfortunately, but proceedings are kicking off again tomorrow as usual. The league has been on a two week break due to international football duties, but players from the Premier League aren\u2019t needed for&#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":[971,909,2356,850,2241],"class_list":["post-14326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-pl-news","tag-premier-league","tag-premier-league-fixtures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326","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=14326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14328,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions\/14328"}],"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=14326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}