{"id":114302,"date":"2019-05-06T16:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=114302"},"modified":"2019-05-06T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:12:10","slug":"epl-guardiola-names-two-best-teams-he-has-faced-in-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=114302","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Guardiola names two best teams he has faced in his career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said Liverpool are one of the best two teams he has ever faced during his time as a coach.<\/p>\n

Liverpool moved back to the top of the Premier League on Saturday, meaning that Manchester City must now win their final two matches, starting with Leicester City on Monday night, to be certain of retaining their Premier League title.<\/p>\n

Guardiola said it would be an even more remarkable achievement to finish ahead of a side he compared to the Barcelona team that thrashed former club, Bayern Munich, in a Champions League semi-final in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my career as a manager I have played against incredible sides and there are two that were \u2018wow\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne is Barcelona with Luis Enrique, with Neymar, Messi and Suarez up front \u2013 the other is this Liverpool.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they are the best two sides I\u2019ve faced as a manager. That\u2019s why being there, with it in our hands, fighting against them until the end, being seven points behind [at one stage] and after [winning the title with] 100 points,\u201d he told a news conference<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said Liverpool are one of the best two teams he has ever faced during his time as a coach. Liverpool moved back to the top of the Premier League on Saturday, meaning that Manchester City must now win their final two matches, starting with Leicester City on Monday night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[3367,8077],"class_list":["post-114302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-liverpool","tag-pep-guardiola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}