{"id":412573,"date":"2023-02-14T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412573"},"modified":"2023-02-14T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:36:42","slug":"arsenal-are-best-team-in-the-league-says-man-city-manager-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arsenal-are-best-team-in-the-league-says-man-city-manager-guardiola\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal are best team in the league, says Man City manager Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Champions Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said that rivals Arsenal are the best team in the English Premier League as he prepares his side for their trip to the Emirates on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have to be ready \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ManCity<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@okx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JNNfPybZyx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JNNfPybZyx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1625479872880443393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Citizens, who are second in the standings, three points behind leaders Arsenal with one more game played, will be hoping to close the gap as they recovered from their recent slump to stroll past Aston Villa with a 3-1 victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cA big, big battle.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ManCity<\/a> manager Pep Guardiola on the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARSMCI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ARSMCI<\/a> \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZsJS4ZzhGH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZsJS4ZzhGH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1625481030332215298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, they are the best team in the Premier League,&#8221; Guardiola told a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We felt it a couple of weeks ago (in the FA Cup). The commitment, they are sharp. It will be a big, big battle. You have to be ready.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not truly believe one week ago we are out of form and now we&#8217;re back in form. Every game is different, you can play good and win and everything is perfect but tomorrow you could lose. Tomorrow is an important one, everyone knows it, and we&#8217;ll try to do our best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola also rejected claims that Sunday&#8217;s win has provided his side with a renewed spirit, highlighting how the togetherness in his team is not swayed by results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champions Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said that rivals Arsenal are the best team in the English Premier League as he prepares his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412574,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,17183,17412],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The two teams meet in the top-of-the-table clash at the Emirates on Wednesday","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412573"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412573"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}