{"id":166063,"date":"2019-11-07T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166063"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:29:51","slug":"liverpool-vs-man-city-mane-responds-to-guardiolas-attack-on-him-ahead-of-epl-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166063","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool vs Man City: Mane responds to Guardiola\u2019s attack on him ahead of EPL clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Transfer-Real-Madrid-offers-Liverpool-Asensio-in-swap-deal-for-Mane.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Liverpool ace, Sadio Mane, has hit back at Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola, after the former Barcelona coach accused him of diving.<\/p>\n<p>Man City face title rivals Liverpool this weekend in the Premier League and Guardiola has already started the mind-games ahead of the fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking over the weekend, Guardiola said: \u201cIt\u2019s happened a lot for Liverpool in the last years [scoring late on].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s because [Mane] is a special talent. Sometimes he\u2019s diving, sometimes he has this talent to score incredible goals in the last minute. He\u2019s a talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Guardiola\u2019s comments on Wednesday, the Senegal international laughed off the comments, insisting he will not change the way he plays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it could be a penalty for sure I will \u2018dive\u2019 again,\u201d Mane was quoted by Mirror UK as saying. \u201cIf the dive will give me a penalty then I will do it to get it back. Why not?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what Jurgen said is correct. I do not dive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I saw him commenting about it, what he said, for me, I think it\u2019s positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I can say I will be ready for the team, to give everything possible, and to help my team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I get a penalty, yeah it\u2019s a penalty. If no penalty, no penalty, but it will never change the way I\u2019m playing or the way I\u2019m doing my things.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool ace, Sadio Mane, has hit back at Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola, after the former Barcelona coach accused him of diving. Man City face title rivals Liverpool this weekend in the Premier League and Guardiola has already started the mind-games ahead of the fixture. Speaking over the weekend, Guardiola said: \u201cIt\u2019s happened a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165069,"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":[2658,3367,10339],"class_list":["post-166063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-liverpool","tag-sadio-mane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166063","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=166063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}