{"id":175596,"date":"2019-12-13T17:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=175596"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:40:57","slug":"epl-guardiola-bans-man-city-players-from-attending-christmas-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=175596","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Guardiola bans Man City players from attending Christmas party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/12\/EPL-Guardiola-bans-Man-City-players-from-attending-Christmas-party.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, cancelled Christmas for his first-team stars, as they were banned from attending the club\u2019s festive party, according to Goal.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola is keen to avoid another festive slump, like the one which threatened to derail their treble hopes last year.<\/p>\n<p>After last year\u2019s celebrations, City were surprisingly beaten 3-2 at home to Crystal Palace and then lost to Leicester four days later.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually recovered to successfully defend their Premier League title.<\/p>\n<p>And with City currently 14 points behind league leaders Liverpool, Guardiola has taken action to avoid a similar slump by banning players from this year\u2019s bash.<\/p>\n<p>The party took place at a city-centre venue on Thursday, just three days before City head to the Emirates to face Arsenal.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, cancelled Christmas for his first-team stars, as they were banned from attending the club\u2019s festive party, according to Goal. Guardiola is keen to avoid another festive slump, like the one which threatened to derail their treble hopes last year. After last year\u2019s celebrations, City were surprisingly beaten 3-2 at home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175597,"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":[2658,4368,8077],"class_list":["post-175596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-manchester-city","tag-pep-guardiola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175596","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=175596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}