{"id":3438,"date":"2026-04-25T12:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:35:39","slug":"im-really-really-exhausted-pep-guardiola-explains-that-victory-against-arsenal-left-manchester-city-players-exhausted-and-expresses-his-reservations-about-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m really, really exhausted!\u201d \u00bb Pep Guardiola explains that victory against Arsenal left Manchester City players exhausted and expresses his reservations about the state of the Wembley pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p><span>The lack of rotation in recent weeks has reportedly created some tension in the dressing room, with lesser-used players frustrated by their lack of playing time. Guardiola acknowledged this discontent, but highlighted his team&#8217;s defensive record &#8211; just one goal conceded in five games &#8211; to justify maintaining a consistent starting XI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe players who are not playing are not very happy,\u201d observed Guardiola. \u201cBecause, you know, the last few games, we&#8217;ve had long weeks. I rotate less. In the last five or six games we have only conceded one goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But today, on the second day after Burnley, the players are still tired and the team is a little exhausted. Some physiotherapists have warned me: \u201cBe careful with this or that player, because of his history or risk of injury\u201d. If a player gets injured now, it&#8217;s over. So I want everyone to be available for Everton until the end. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of rotation in recent weeks has reportedly created some tension in the dressing room, with lesser-used players frustrated by their lack of playing time. Guardiola acknowledged this discontent, but highlighted his team&#8217;s defensive record &#8211; just one goal conceded in five games &#8211; to justify maintaining a consistent starting XI. \u201cThe players who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","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\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}