{"id":3162,"date":"2026-04-22T08:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:32:33","slug":"pep-guardiola-brushes-aside-wayne-rooneys-stupid-criticism-of-manchester-citys-celebrations-after-decisive-win-over-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3162","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola brushes aside Wayne Rooney&#8217;s &#8216;stupid&#8217; criticism of Manchester City&#8217;s celebrations after &#8216;decisive&#8217; win over Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p><span>The City manager said the intensity of the celebrations was a direct reflection of the pressure the team had felt before the match. He claimed a defeat would have ended their hopes of winning a title, which fully justified the deafening noise that sounded at the final whistle. Erling Haaland was even seen singing in front of a television camera during the post-match victory lap. Guardiola also praised the involvement of Citizens supporters, who unfurled a banner announcing: \u201cPanic in the streets of London\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey knew that in the event of a defeat, it would be &#8216;bye bye&#8217; to their title hopes. They won, we&#8217;re still here, so why not celebrate? Even while respecting the opponent and his supporters, you have to enjoy it as you wish,\u201d he concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City manager said the intensity of the celebrations was a direct reflection of the pressure the team had felt before the match. He claimed a defeat would have ended their hopes of winning a title, which fully justified the deafening noise that sounded at the final whistle. Erling Haaland was even seen singing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","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\/3162","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=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}