{"id":28851,"date":"2024-04-25T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-tough-test-guardiola-warns-man-city-players-ahead-of-brighton-trip\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:00:30","slug":"epl-tough-test-guardiola-warns-man-city-players-ahead-of-brighton-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-tough-test-guardiola-warns-man-city-players-ahead-of-brighton-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: \u2018Tough test\u2019 \u2013 Guardiola warns Man City players ahead of Brighton trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said their Premier League clash at Brighton on Thursday night will be a \u201ctough test\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>City have to win at the Amex to keep pace with title rivals Arsenal and Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The champions are trailing the Gunners by four points and are one point behind the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>However, they have two outstanding fixtures, starting with the trip to Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is one of the toughest games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrighton away if you put in my calendar is always one of the toughest ones for the way they play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy admiration for Roberto de Zerbi is growing every season. Facing his side is harder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have had a lot of problems. Important players were sold. They lost Colwill, Mac Allister, Caicedo\u2026 all very important players and they have had a lot of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey played in more competitions [but] the way they play always is there,\u201d Guardiola told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: \u2018Tough test\u2019 \u2013 Guardiola warns Man City players ahead of Brighton trip<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said their Premier League clash at Brighton on Thursday night will be a \u201ctough&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6053,194,1992,1031,15,160],"tags":[6056,1033,156,1994,202,180,201],"class_list":["post-28851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brighton","category-epl","category-guardiola","category-man-city","category-news","category-sport","tag-brighton","tag-city","tag-epl","tag-guardiola","tag-man","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}