{"id":479371,"date":"2024-03-01T21:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T01:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479371"},"modified":"2024-03-01T21:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T01:07:06","slug":"guardiola-insists-calm-heads-from-his-players-in-manchester-derby","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-insists-calm-heads-from-his-players-in-manchester-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola insists \u2018calm heads\u2019 from his players in Manchester derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues head coach, Pep Guardiola, says his team must focus on tactics, not emotions, in the upcoming Premier League derby with the Red Devils on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t talk about the opponents&#8221; \ud83e\udd2b<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola has a lot of respect for Manchester United \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wefk8UYDFZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Wefk8UYDFZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1763545130902999250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Guardiola\u2019s side, who triumphed 3-0 at Old Trafford, are 15 points above Manchester United in the EPL.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams are in great form, with 2nd-place City undefeated in 18 matches and Man United being defeated only 1 time since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I learn from coaching in these types of matches is to be calmer, relax, don&#8217;t talk about many things,&#8221; the Sky Blues boss admitted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just concentrate on tactics and what you can do on the pitch to triumph, not about emotions &#8211; because emotions will be a factor, without a doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This will be the 1<sup>st<\/sup> derby. Sir Jim Ratcliffe became co-owner of the Red Devils and claimed that he aims to knock the Sky Blues &#8220;off their perch&#8221; within 3 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola\u2019s side won 5 of the last 6 titles in the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f 3 Mar: Man Utd<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f 6 Mar: Champions League round of 16<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f 10 Mar: Liverpool<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f 16 Mar: FA Cup quarter-final<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f 31 Mar: Arsenal<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f 3 Apr: Aston Villa<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola is looking forward to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ManCity<\/a>&#8216;s upcoming run of fixtures \ud83d\udcac <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2SWB7nLEqt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2SWB7nLEqt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1763620492605304912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2024<\/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, says his team must focus on tactics, not emotions, in the upcoming Premier League derby with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479372,"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":"Manchester City manager claimed that he wants his players to be relaxed.","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\/479371"}],"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=479371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479375,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479371\/revisions\/479375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479371"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479371"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}