{"id":35381,"date":"2021-01-20T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=35381"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T16:25:47","slug":"epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Michael Owen predicts Man City vs Aston Villa, Fulham vs Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former England and Liverpool striker, Michael Owen, has predicted some of the Premier League\u2019s midweek games.<\/p>\n<p>A tricky challenge awaits Manchester United, as they travel to Craven Cottage to face Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Owen does not expect any issues for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s men on their travels and tips them to continue their impressive run on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAway day specialists Manchester United executed their game plan to perfection at Anfield on Sunday. They could\u2019ve left with all 3 points but overall, they\u2019ll be pleased with the outcome,\u201d he told BetVictor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey take on a Fulham side that narrowly lost out to Chelsea, however, despite that defeat they have made noticeable improvements over the last month or so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, United are undefeated in their last 16 away matches in the Premier League I cannot see them slipping up here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, in-form City welcome Aston Villa to the Etihad looking to make it six wins in six.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think [Villa] will be happy to give up territory to City in the hope they can sucker-punch them on the counter,\u201d Owen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe those tactics could work for Villa to a certain extent; however, City are playing too well just now to be overlooked and I think they\u2019ll notch up another win in their quest for top spot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former England and Liverpool striker, Michael Owen, has predicted some of the Premier League\u2019s midweek games. A tricky challenge awaits Manchester United, as they travel to Craven Cottage to face Fulham. Owen does not expect any issues for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s men on their travels and tips them to continue their impressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,885,2557,2558,1834,254],"class_list":["post-35381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-epl","tag-fulham-vs-man-utd","tag-man-city-vs-aston-villa","tag-michael-owen","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPL: Michael Owen predicts Man City vs Aston Villa, Fulham vs Man Utd - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former England and Liverpool striker, Michael Owen, has predicted some of the Premier League\u2019s midweek games.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPL: Michael Owen predicts Man City vs Aston Villa, Fulham vs Man Utd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former England and Liverpool striker, Michael Owen, has predicted some of the Premier League\u2019s midweek games.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-20T16:50:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-60085964e1c69.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"783\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"EPL: Michael Owen predicts Man City vs Aston Villa, Fulham vs Man Utd\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-20T16:50:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-60085964e1c69.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"EPL\",\"Fulham vs Man Utd\",\"Man City vs Aston Villa\",\"michael owen\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-michael-owen-predicts-man-city-vs-aston-villa-fulham-vs-man-utd\",\"name\":\"EPL: Michael Owen predicts Man City vs Aston Villa, Fulham vs Man Utd - 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