{"id":70536,"date":"2018-12-17T19:14:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70536"},"modified":"2018-12-17T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:21:11","slug":"epl-de-bruyne-names-club-that-can-stop-man-city-from-retaining-premier-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70536","title":{"rendered":"EPL: De Bruyne names club that can stop Man City from retaining Premier League title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester City play maker, Kevin De Bruyne has named Liverpool as the club that can stop Pep Guardiola\u2019s men from retaining the Premier League title this season.<\/p>\n

City won the English topflight league title last season with a record 100 points from 38 games.<\/p>\n

But De Bruyne believes Jurgen Klopp\u2019s men will fight City \u2018to the end\u2019 in the title race this term.<\/p>\n

The Belgium international stated this following City\u2019s 3-1 victory over Everton in the Premier League encounter over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The midfielder played his first Premier League match of the season as a second-half substitute against Everton after recovering from a knee injury he sustained some months ago.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the club that can stop City from retaining the Premier League title, ESPN quoted De Bruyne as saying: \u201cI don\u2019t know why they [Liverpool] can\u2019t sustain it. I think Liverpool will go on to the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be fair, I\u2019m not too worried about them. They will do what they do and we\u2019ll have to try to win our games and go forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll try to keep pace with us and vice-versa. But it\u2019s still early. There\u2019s no pressure \u2014 we need to do what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Bruyne will hope to lead Guardiola\u2019s men to victory when they tackle Leicester City on Tuesday in the Carabao Cup.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City play maker, Kevin De Bruyne has named Liverpool as the club that can stop Pep Guardiola\u2019s men from retaining the Premier League title this season. City won the English topflight league title last season with a record 100 points from 38 games. But De Bruyne believes Jurgen Klopp\u2019s men will fight City \u2018to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37029,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4368],"class_list":["post-70536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70536","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=70536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}