{"id":58043,"date":"2025-12-01T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=58043"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:07:12","slug":"man-citys-guardiola-brushes-off-scrappy-win-over-leeds-before-fulham-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/man-citys-guardiola-brushes-off-scrappy-win-over-leeds-before-fulham-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City&#8217;s Guardiola Brushes off Scrappy Win over Leeds before Fulham Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola does not believe last weekend&#8217;s Premier League win over relegation-threatened Leeds United indicates a change of mentality at the club, as he prepares for the trip to in-form Fulham on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>City suffered back-to-back losses, at Newcastle United in the English top flight and to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, before beating 18th-placed Leeds 3-2 at home thanks to Phil Foden&#8217;s late winner to go second in the table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all depends if Phil puts the ball in the net. I don&#8217;t know if you can define mentality off one win. I don&#8217;t believe in these kind of things,&#8221; Guardiola told reporters on Monday, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola, who has led City to six league titles, praised Fulham manager Marco Silva, whose team won 2-1 at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marco is many, many years there. Always have been really tough games. Difficult. Their organisation is exceptional. Every year, I have a feeling that with the ball they are better and even better,&#8221; Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw their games these days&#8230; against Chelsea, against Arsenal, last games against Sunderland. It&#8217;s always so difficult for the opponent to break up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Rodri, who has been out with a hamstring injury since early last month, is still not fit to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola does not believe last weekend&#8217;s Premier League win over relegation-threatened Leeds United indicates a change of mentality at the club, as he prepares for the trip to in-form Fulham on Tuesday. City suffered back-to-back losses, at Newcastle United in the English top flight and to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58046,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58043\/revisions\/58046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}