{"id":1688972,"date":"2022-10-14T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688972"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:19:17","slug":"soccer-liverpool-are-our-biggest-title-challengers-says-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-liverpool-are-our-biggest-title-challengers-says-guardiola\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer: Liverpool are our biggest title challengers, says Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoccer-liverpool-are-our-biggest-title-challengers-says-guardiola%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688972&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013 Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said Liverpool are their \u201cbiggest challengers\u201d for the Premier League title despite the Merseyside team trailing his side by 13 points ahead of Sunday\u2019s game at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>City, who have qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League, are second in the league table on 23 points after nine games, one point behind leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have won only two of their eight league games and are 10th, but Guardiola said his opinion about them has not been changed by their league position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the quality they have, they know the quality we have. If this was with three games left, I would say they could not catch top of the league but, with so long left plus a World Cup, anything can happen,\u201d Guardiola told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always difficult in the years since we have arrived here together, it will be a tough game and I don\u2019t expect anything else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game will be dictated on the pitch, not by the table, because we are in front of them or behind, not because of those kind of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City have been one of the most consistent teams in world football this season, with the team yet to lose a game in any competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our biggest achievement as a team,\u201d Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything can change. A few months ago Liverpool were competing for a prestigious situation in English football, four titles, they had more shots, possession, everything in the final and they lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the same team, same manager, things can happen. It\u2019s part of the nature of the competition. I don\u2019t look at good moments or bad moments I analyse as a team always expecting the best of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola said that Kyle Walker (groin), Kalvin Phillips (shoulder) and John Stones (thigh) are still sidelined and he does not know if they would be fit to play for England at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He added that striker Erling Haaland will play in Sunday\u2019s game after he was an unused substitute in their Champions League match in midweek.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard also discussed his own contract extension negotiations, saying he is \u201cnot thinking one second\u201d about it. His current deal is set to expire in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have two or three weeks until the World Cup and this is an important time. After that, we have plenty of time to talk about that,\u201d said Guardiola, who has guided City to four Premier League titles, four League Cups and the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said Liverpool are their \u201cbiggest challengers\u201d for the Premier League title despite the Merseyside team\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Soccer: Liverpool are our biggest title challengers, says Guardiola","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Soccer: Liverpool are our biggest title challengers, says Guardiola","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/soccer-liverpool-are-our\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soccer-liverpool-are-our","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}