{"id":51154,"date":"2024-09-27T19:04:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-arteta-speaks-on-title-fight-affecting-his-friendship-with-guardiola\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T19:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T19:04:35","slug":"epl-arteta-speaks-on-title-fight-affecting-his-friendship-with-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-arteta-speaks-on-title-fight-affecting-his-friendship-with-guardiola\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Arteta speaks on title fight affecting his friendship with Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has insisted his friendship with Manchester City\u2019s Pep Guardiola will not be affected by their ongoing title rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2-2 draw at the Etihad last Sunday, several City players criticised Arteta\u2019s tactics.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners sat deep after Leandro Trossard\u2019s red card at the end of the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Players from both sides also clashed after the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Arteta worked under Guardiola at City before taking the role of head coach at Arsenal in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>When he was asked about their relationship during his Friday press conference, Arteta said: \u201cI love him, I respect him, I admire him and I admire his team and everything that he does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is sport. One thing is our profession, another is our personal relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our relationship was damaged because one draws and the other one wins or the amount of times that they\u2019ve beaten us, I would not talk to him any more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that\u2019s not our relationship, especially the relationship that I consider both of us have. In sport it will never get in my way, a personal relationship, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Arteta speaks on title fight affecting his friendship with Guardiola<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has insisted his friendship with Manchester City\u2019s Pep Guardiola will not be affected by their ongoing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4131,1992,15,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arteta","category-guardiola","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154","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=51154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}