{"id":290951,"date":"2023-10-03T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=290951"},"modified":"2023-10-03T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T16:26:08","slug":"pep-guardiola-fires-warning-to-arsenal-and-provides-update-on-man-city-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/pep-guardiola-fires-warning-to-arsenal-and-provides-update-on-man-city-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola fires warning to Arsenal and provides update on Man City duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1710497400.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola has warned Arsenal that the Premier League title will not be decided by Manchester City\u2019s recent slip-up at Wolves and has provided a key fitness update on two of his players ahead of Sunday\u2019s clash at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal news, exclusives and analysis<\/p>\n<p>Last season\u2019s treble winners suffered a shock 2-1 defeat to Gary O\u2019Neil\u2019s side at Molineux on Saturday, making it back-to-back losses after they crashed out of the Carabao Cup to Newcastle United, two results that have left Guardiola \u2018hurt\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>City look to get back to winning ways on Wednesday with a trip to RB Leipzig in the Champions League before they travel to Arsenal on Sunday in a showdown between the two biggest favourites to land this season\u2019s top-flight title.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal went close to lifting their first Premier League trophy since 2004 last term and topped the table for 248 days, the most for a team who failed to win the title in history, while this season they are one point behind City after seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville feels Arsenal will come out on top in the title race this time around and will be boosted by City\u2019s slip-up at Wolves, but Guardiola does not see it the same way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re not going to win the Premier League at Wolves or lose it,\u2019 Guardiola said on Tuesday. \u2018We\u2019ve been behind the [Premier League] leaders many times. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018We will get back to our principles, learn from the game. I\u2019m more than pleased at what they\u2019ve done so far and you have to move on.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wolves end City 100% PL record! | Wolves 2-1 Man City | EPL Highlights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/daUYnQvylX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Guardiola added: \u2018I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen this season. What the players have done is unbelievable. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018We conceded two shots on target [against Wolves] and we lost the game, that\u2019s football.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We have to improve, yeah, [but] the base of what we did last season was John Stones, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Jack Grealish and they weren\u2019t there. Sometimes you have to adjust something, it\u2019s normal.<\/p>\n<p>To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There are some players who know exactly what they have to do because they\u2019ve been here seven years together, the other ones don\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are still in the process of making our team better. The Newcastle game hurts, the Wolves game hurts. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Now we have to move forward to Leipzig, then away to Arsenal.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola has also confirmed that John Stones and Bernardo Silva are set to return for Sunday\u2019s clash against Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They feel better,\u2019 Guardiola said. \u2018Bernardo better than John. Both travelled [to Germany], we will decide tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m really happy they\u2019re back. John has not played one minute this season,Bernardo had an injury and the birth of his beautiful baby daughter but they\u2019re back. It\u2019s good news for us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/10\/03\/pep-guardiola-warns-arsenal-and-provides-key-man-city-injury-update-19598294\/?ico=zone-widget_home_sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Pep Guardiola has warned Arsenal that the Premier League title will not be decided by Manchester City\u2019s recent slip-up at Wolves and has provided a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/pep-guardiola-fires-warning-to-arsenal-and-provides-update-on-man-city-duo\/\" title=\"Pep Guardiola fires warning to Arsenal and provides update on Man City duo\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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