{"id":459671,"date":"2023-09-18T22:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459671"},"modified":"2023-09-18T22:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:31:21","slug":"guardiola-shares-that-it-would-be-easier-for-his-side-to-win-cl-now","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-shares-that-it-would-be-easier-for-his-side-to-win-cl-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola shares that it would be easier for his side to win CL now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City&#8217;s quest to defend their UCL title will be less difficult than their long longing to triumph in Europe&#8217;s best club competition, Guardiola shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pep Guardiola said Man City&#8217;s Champions League title defense this season will be &#8220;easier&#8221; \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IET3Zi6XIr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IET3Zi6XIr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1703823702020759654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues won their 1<sup>st<\/sup> Champions League trophy with a 1-0 victory against Inter in Istanbul, ending years of unsuccessful tries to win the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Media asked Pep about his club\u2019s chances to defend the trophy ahead of their 1<sup>st<\/sup> match from the new season in the competition against Red Star Belgrade, and the Spaniard claimed that it would be much easier as the hardest thing is to triumph with your 1<sup>st<\/sup> one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tomorrow is the first step. The most important thing will be to win the 3 points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pep added that Jack Grealish, John Stones, and Mateo Kovacic will miss the Champions League opener as they didn\u2019t play during the weekend when the Sky Blues defeated West Ham 3-1 in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City&#8217;s quest to defend their UCL title will be less difficult than their long longing to triumph in Europe&#8217;s best club competition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":459672,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18072,17183,17412],"news_category":[142,14235],"gn_keywords":[18073,18121,677],"acf":{"announce":"The Manchester City manager thinks that it would be easier for his team to retain the Champions League.","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\/459671"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459674,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459671\/revisions\/459674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459671"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459671"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}