{"id":295238,"date":"2025-07-27T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295238\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T06:39:10","slug":"matchday-gallery-west-ham-narrowly-defeated-in-premier-league-summer-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295238\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchday Gallery | West Ham narrowly defeated in Premier League Summer Series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United started their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/summerseries?utm_source=whu_%20reg&amp;utm_medium=editorial_article_text&amp;utm_campaign=announce&amp;utm_content=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Premier League Summer Series<\/strong><\/a> campaign with a 2-1 defeat by Manchester United at the iconic MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Bruno Fernandes put the Red Devils ahead in the United States, converting from the penalty spot after Alphonse Areola fouled Ayden Heaven and Manchester United led 1-0 going into the half-time break.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes then doubled his tally and Manchester United&#8217;s lead on 52 minutes after Patrick Dorgu had intercepted and fed his captain.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrod Bowen halved the deficit on 63 minutes with a spectacular right-foot shot after latching onto Tom\u00e1\u0161 Sou\u010dek&#8217;s pass, but Manchester United held on to win by a single goal margin.<\/p>\n<p>AFC Bournemouth defeated Everton 3-0 in the opening half of the double-header earlier in the afternoon on a hot and humid day.<\/p>\n<p>We have games against Everton at Soldier Field in Chicago on Wednesday and Bournemouth at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta a week on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>You can view a photo gallery from the Premier League Summer Series opener by clicking on the image above.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/summerseries?utm_source=whu_%20reg&amp;utm_medium=editorial_article_text&amp;utm_campaign=announce&amp;utm_content=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham United started their Premier League Summer Series campaign with a 2-1 defeat by Manchester United at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-295238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114923828995922899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}