{"id":165534,"date":"2019-11-05T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=165534"},"modified":"2019-11-05T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:49:37","slug":"epl-alan-shearer-warns-guardiola-ahead-of-liverpool-man-city-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=165534","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Alan Shearer warns Guardiola ahead of Liverpool, Man City clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Transfer-Guardiola-reveals-player-he-would-love-to-sign-for-Man-City.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Premier League legend, Alan Shearer has warned Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola that the Citizens \u2018cannot afford\u2019 to lose to Liverpool when both sides clash in the Premier League on Sunday at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in his column for the Sun, Shearer said: \u201cSunday\u2019s trip to Anfield is a match Pep Guardiola just simply cannot afford to lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool will go nine points clear by beating Manchester City in their crunch title clash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a deficit like that \u2014 even in mid-November \u2014 Guardiola knows he would have a mountain to climb to win the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Reds have turned Anfield into a fortress and they haven\u2019t lost there in 45 Premier League matches stretching back to April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is an astonishing record and means they start this game as favourites despite City arriving as back-to-back champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can expect a battle right to the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth teams showed how they can fight to the death with dramatic late wins at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJurgen Klopp\u2019s side seem to have forgotten how to lose and went from 1-0 down at 87 minutes to coming away with three points at Aston Villa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are currently on top of the Premier League table with six points ahead of second-place Man City after eleven matches.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League legend, Alan Shearer has warned Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola that the Citizens \u2018cannot afford\u2019 to lose to Liverpool when both sides clash in the Premier League on Sunday at Anfield. Writing in his column for the Sun, Shearer said: \u201cSunday\u2019s trip to Anfield is a match Pep Guardiola just simply cannot afford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136959,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,3367,8077],"class_list":["post-165534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-liverpool","tag-pep-guardiola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165534","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=165534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}