{"id":2175,"date":"2026-04-13T07:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:21:25","slug":"imagine-beating-arsenal-twice-in-the-space-of-a-few-weeks-launched-pep-guardiola-to-stimulate-the-manchester-city-players-on-the-eve-of-the-premier-league-final-aga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"\u201cImagine beating Arsenal twice in the space of a few weeks! \u00bb launched Pep Guardiola to stimulate the Manchester City players, on the eve of the Premier League \u201cfinal\u201d against the Gunners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"A\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Guardiola puts his team&#8217;s recent success down to psychological advantage rather than simple tactical adjustments, praising the internal hierarchy for embedding a genuine winning culture. He believes that the current freshness of the squad, favored by the unusual absence of European matches in the middle of the week, has allowed more targeted work in training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking about the extraordinary state of mind of his players and the importance of the upcoming match, the City coach said: \u201cThe second half was extraordinary because we had the right state of mind. It wasn&#8217;t a question of tactics. We have known each other for a long time and the players showed a good mentality to win here, which is never easy. The past was something unique, but we are moving forward. We now have a long few weeks ahead of us, now that we are eliminated from the Champions League. We are cooler; in training, everyone knows exactly what they have to do. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He concluded: \u201cWe will see what happens next. The match against Arsenal is akin to a final, but don&#8217;t tell me that the match against Brentford next week will be easy. A lot will happen. Yesterday I reminded the players that they should relax. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola puts his team&#8217;s recent success down to psychological advantage rather than simple tactical adjustments, praising the internal hierarchy for embedding a genuine winning culture. He believes that the current freshness of the squad, favored by the unusual absence of European matches in the middle of the week, has allowed more targeted work in training. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}