{"id":473140,"date":"2023-12-16T20:19:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473140"},"modified":"2023-12-16T20:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:19:36","slug":"guardiola-admits-his-team-cant-blame-bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-admits-his-team-cant-blame-bad-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola admits his team can\u2018t blame bad luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues head coach, Pep Guardiola, claims his club cannot blame bad luck for their failure to close matches after they lost more points from a winning position in today\u2019s 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning champions had a 2-0 lead with only 15 minutes remaining but failed to win the 3 points after Jean-Philippe Mateta&#8217;s breakaway goal for 2-1 and Michael Olise&#8217;s converted penalty in the extra time as Palace completed a shocking comeback.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;This cannot happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola shares his thoughts after Man City let a two-goal lead slip against Crystal Palace. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5vZgQV48Lb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5vZgQV48Lb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSportsSoccer\/status\/1736130559485653389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is the 4<sup>th<\/sup> time in the last 6 EPL games that the Sky Blues have been held after leading late on, leaving them 3 points from the 1st place as the leaders, Liverpool, have a match in hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not misfortune, it&#8217;s deserved,&#8221; Pep admitted. &#8220;We gave away 2 points, but if you give away a penalty, you deserve not to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Manchester City have failed to win in three consecutive Premier League home games for the first time since Pep Guardiola\u2019s first season in charge in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool, Tottenham and now Crystal Palace all leave the Etihad with a point. \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SRu5S4Or9F\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SRu5S4Or9F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1736069676881592524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues head coach, Pep Guardiola, claims his club cannot blame bad luck for their failure to close matches after they lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":473141,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,17412,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18121,17886,677],"acf":{"announce":"The Manchester City manager shared that his side can\u2019t blame the back luck for the draw.","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\/473140"}],"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=473140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473143,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473140\/revisions\/473143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473140"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473140"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}