{"id":481454,"date":"2024-04-03T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481454"},"modified":"2024-04-03T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:32:09","slug":"guardiola-defends-haaland-after-keanes-criticism","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-defends-haaland-after-keanes-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola defends Haaland after Keane\u2019s criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues head coach has defended star Erling Haaland after Roy Keane&#8217;s criticism after last weekend\u2019s goalless draw vs. Arsenal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Pep Guardiola has responded to Roy Keane&#39;s claims that Erling Haaland is &quot;almost like a League Two player&quot;.<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\/jAbR5Z5CZW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jAbR5Z5CZW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/1775289417545953397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The ex-Red Devils captain shared that the Norwegian striker\u2019s &#8220;general play&#8221; is &#8220;so poor&#8221; and &#8220;almost like a League 2 footballer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t agree with Keane, absolutely not,&#8221; shared the Manchester City manager when asked about Roy\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>Erling netted 52 goals in all tournaments in the past campaign and has 29 this season, 18 of which are in the EPL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Haaland is the best forward in the world,&#8221; added Pep of his Norway international striker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Erling helped us be successful in the past campaign, and the reason why we didn&#8217;t create many chances for Haaland against the Gunners was that we needed more presence in the final 3<sup>rd<\/sup> with more people.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues are 3 points behind leaders Liverpool after the draw against the Gunners, as that was City\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> EPL game at the Etihad Stadium in which they failed to score since October 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues head coach has defended star Erling Haaland after Roy Keane&#8217;s criticism after last weekend\u2019s goalless draw vs. Arsenal. \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Pep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481455,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17223,17183,17412,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18121,17886,16461,677],"acf":{"announce":"The former Man United legend compared the forward to a League 2 player.","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\/481454"}],"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=481454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481457,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481454\/revisions\/481457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481454"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481454"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}