{"id":472235,"date":"2023-12-08T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472235"},"modified":"2023-12-08T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:37:27","slug":"guardiola-i-dont-see-phillips-in-my-1st-team","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-i-dont-see-phillips-in-my-1st-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola: \u2018I don\u2019t see Phillips in my 1st team\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues&#8217; head coach, Pep Guardiola, has apologized to his player, Kalvin Phillips, for not selecting him in the EPL this campaign but shares that he &#8220;struggles to see him&#8221; in his starting team.<\/p>\n<p>The England international has yet to start for the Premier League and UCL treble champions, limiting his time on the pitch to just 90 minutes since the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I am so, so sorry&#8221; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Will Kalvin Phillips leave Manchester City in January?<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola says he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t deserve&#8221; his lack of minutes.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzSOH8bb3Y\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PzSOH8bb3Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1733138340218548522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Phillips is benched even in the absence of Rodri, as he didn\u2019t even enter the pitch in the team\u2019s 1-0 defeat against Aston Villa two days ago, despite the Spaniard midfield being unavailable for the clash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kalvin doesn&#8217;t deserve what has happened to him, and I&#8217;m sorry for this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing I can share about him is that I\u2019m demanding good personalities and characters, and Phillips is a perfect example.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues&#8217; head coach, Pep Guardiola, has apologized to his player, Kalvin Phillips, for not selecting him in the EPL this campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":472236,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21528,17183,17412,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[21529,18121,17886,677],"acf":{"announce":"Manchester City boss admitted that he doesn\u2019t see the midfielder in his 1st squad.","video":["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\/472235"}],"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=472235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472239,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472235\/revisions\/472239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472235"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472235"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}