{"id":328108,"date":"2021-03-17T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=328108"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:37:41","slug":"champions-league-guardiola-makes-demands-as-man-city-qualify-for-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=328108","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Guardiola makes demands as Man City qualify for quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City gaffer, Pep Guardiola, has called on his defenders to \u201cmaintain this mood\u201d after making it 706 minutes since they last conceded a goal in the UEFA Champions League this season.<br \/>\nGuardiola\u2019s men are only the third team in the Champions League\u2019s history to keep seven consecutive clean sheets, after AC Milan (seven, ending in 2005) and Arsenal (10, ending in 2006).<br \/>\nGuardiola believes City will face a stronger opponent in the last-8 after eliminating Borussia Monchengladbach in the last-16 on Tuesday night.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat happened in the past is the past,\u201d Guardiola said at his post-match press conference.<br \/>\n\u201cThe quarter-finals, one bad game, bad moments, bad minutes, they can punish you with their quality.<br \/>\n\u201cRight now, all the teams will be so big. We only conceded one goal against Porto. That is impressive.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible step forward for the team. Everyone runs a lot, not just the strikers. But it is important to understand that we defend with the ball.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have to be aggressive without the ball. All the teams right now, the quality they\u2019ve, they can punish you.<br \/>\n\u201cAfter the international break, we\u2019ll have time to think. The quality every time is higher, and hopefully, we can maintain this mood.<br \/>\n\u201cI always think when you go through, you deserve it. We try to play good, and we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City gaffer, Pep Guardiola, has called on his defenders to \u201cmaintain this mood\u201d after making it 706 minutes since they last conceded a goal in the UEFA Champions League this season. Guardiola\u2019s men are only the third team in the Champions League\u2019s history to keep seven consecutive clean sheets, after AC Milan (seven, ending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328109,"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-328108","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\/328108","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=328108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}