{"id":481991,"date":"2024-04-16T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481991"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:06:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:06:19","slug":"man-city-head-coach-guardiola-doesnt-fear-real","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-head-coach-guardiola-doesnt-fear-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City head coach Guardiola \u2018doesn\u2019t fear\u2019 Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola claims he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t fear&#8221; 14-time Champions League champs Real Madrid ahead of their \u00bc final 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues faced Los Blancos in each of the past 3 campaigns, eliminating them in the \u00bd finals in the past season, but losing at the same stage the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The Madrid giants have reached at least the \u00bd finals in 11 of the last 13 campaigns, but Pep says he&#8217;s not concerned about their phenomenal record in the tournament ahead of the clash tomorrow at Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t fear Real,&#8221; the Spaniard head coach shared with the media today. &#8220;I respect them a lot. I have faced a lot. I respect Los Blancos, and if I share, I&#8217;m scared of them; It would not be true.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s the rivalry; you want to defeat them and perform great. But you can\u2019t always win against the best teams in the world. But I&#8217;m not scared of them, and if they eliminate me &#8212; as has happened in the past &#8212; we will wish them the best and continue to work to improve ourselfs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Pep Guardiola: \u201cI think they are an exceptional team. This year, last year, the year before&#8230;Real Madrid always has a good team. That&#39;s my opinion, I already know when I say good things about Madrid, people don&#39;t believe me. In Madrid they will make jokes and think that I am\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OmWr9dHs7z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OmWr9dHs7z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theMadridZone\/status\/1780206672108998706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 16, 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>Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola claims he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t fear&#8221; 14-time Champions League champs Real Madrid ahead of their \u00bc final 2nd leg. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481992,"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 Sky Blues manager shared that he doesn\u2019t fear Madrid.","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\/481991"}],"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=481991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481993,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481991\/revisions\/481993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481991"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481991"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}