{"id":339896,"date":"2021-04-15T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T09:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=339896"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T09:16:23","slug":"champions-league-what-guardiola-said-about-haaland-after-man-city-defeated-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=339896","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: What Guardiola said about Haaland after Man City defeated Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has insisted that Borussia Dortmund star, Erling Haaland, was almost unstoppable during both sides\u2019 Champions League quarter-final second-leg tie in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola explained that Haaland is a top-class player, adding that the Norway international will be stronger in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Foden\u2019s strike against Dortmund secured a place in the Champions League semi-finals for the first time under Guardiola\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Riyad Mahrez had equalised from the spot as Man City shrugged off Jude Bellingham\u2019s early opener to beat Dortmund 4-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League leaders will now face Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say this player [Haaland] is almost unstoppable, and the best way to defend against these talented players is to not let them have the ball,\u201d Guardiola said at his post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want the ball, they need the ball, so don\u2019t [let them] have it. For that, we need to play good and try to let him live away from our box. It happened in both games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a player not [just] because he is fast, the quality of his first control, how he links with his mates, strong in the air and good finishing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a top-class player, top class, and will be stronger in the future.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has insisted that Borussia Dortmund star, Erling Haaland, was almost unstoppable during both sides\u2019 Champions League quarter-final second-leg tie in Germany. Guardiola explained that Haaland is a top-class player, adding that the Norway international will be stronger in the future. Phil Foden\u2019s strike against Dortmund secured a place in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339897,"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":[2658,13865,1406,8077],"class_list":["post-339896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-erling-braut-haaland","tag-manchester-united","tag-pep-guardiola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339896","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=339896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/339897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}