{"id":328081,"date":"2021-03-17T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=328081"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:39:11","slug":"champions-league-guardiola-names-most-intelligent-wisest-player-he-has-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=328081","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Guardiola names most intelligent, wisest player he has seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Pep Guardiola has singled out one player among his star-studded side for praise after their 2-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach in the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe Spaniard hailed Ilkay Gundogan as one of the \u2018most intelligent\u2019 players he\u2019s ever worked with in his career.<br \/>\nManchester City secured a 4-0 victory on aggregate against the German side to cruise into the last-eight with Kevin De Bruyne and Gundogan on the score sheet.<br \/>\nCity now join Real Madrid, Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain, Borussia Dortmund and Porto in the quarter-finals line-up.<br \/>\nIt was Gundogan\u2019s 15th goal for Manchester City this season in all competitions and Guardiola was left \u2018delighted\u2019 with the Germany international\u2019s latest contribution.<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s always had a sense of goal, playing in Dortmund,\u201d Guardiola said in a post-match interview.<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s an incredibly nice guy. He\u2019s one of the\u2026 I will never forget the time we spent together.<br \/>\n\u201cAs a player he is one of the most intelligent, wiser players I have ever trained, I have ever seen.<br \/>\n\u201cThis season, everytime he has arrived to the goals, he has scored the goals, he has this quality but not just that.<br \/>\n\u201cSo delighted with the performance from Ilkay again and from all of the team.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola has singled out one player among his star-studded side for praise after their 2-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach in the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday. The Spaniard hailed Ilkay Gundogan as one of the \u2018most intelligent\u2019 players he\u2019s ever worked with in his career. Manchester City secured a 4-0 victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328082,"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":[2658,16502,8077],"class_list":["post-328081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ilkay-gundogan","tag-pep-guardiola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328081","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=328081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}