{"id":169551,"date":"2019-11-21T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169551"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:52:19","slug":"man-city-vs-chelsea-fernandinho-speaks-on-his-new-role-in-guardiolas-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169551","title":{"rendered":"Man City vs Chelsea: Fernandinho speaks on his new role in Guardiola\u2019s squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Man-City-vs-Chelsea-Fernandinho-speaks-on-his-new-role-in-Guardiola\u2019s-squad.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City midfielder, Fernandinho has spoken on his new role at the club ahead of his side\u2019s Premier League clash against Frank Lampard\u2019s Chelsea on Saturday evening at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola had demanded that the Brazilian play a central defence position for the Citizens this season, after battling with injuries this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his new role, Fernandinho said he feels good playing in central defence but admitted that he can improve in an unfamiliar position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel good at the new position,\u201d the 34-year-old told Man City\u2019s official website on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I have the help of my teammates and manager. It\u2019s been great for me, trying to do my best as always since I signed for City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you feel you have to improve a little bit \u2013 but that\u2019s the beauty of football. You can. Every morning, you can make it happen.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City midfielder, Fernandinho has spoken on his new role at the club ahead of his side\u2019s Premier League clash against Frank Lampard\u2019s Chelsea on Saturday evening at the Etihad Stadium. Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola had demanded that the Brazilian play a central defence position for the Citizens this season, after battling with injuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169552,"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":[2658,13639],"class_list":["post-169551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-fernandinho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169551","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=169551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}