{"id":19956,"date":"2025-08-24T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19956\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:31:09","slug":"eamonn-sweeney-pep-guardiola-is-crumbling-and-taking-manchester-city-down-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19956\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn Sweeney: Pep Guardiola is crumbling and taking Manchester City down with him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola has rarely had to deal with adversity during his successful career. Photo: Martin Rickett\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SOCCER Ma (83).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pep Guardiola has rarely had to deal with adversity during his successful career. Photo: Martin Rickett\/PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pep Guardiola is crumbling in the face of the first serious setback of his career and taking Manchester City down with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Yesterday\u2019s dire home performance against Spurs was that of a manager and a team who\u2019ve lost their way. It wasn\u2019t just the result, Spurs have been a bogey team for City in the past, but the spiritless and confused way in which they played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola has rarely had to deal with adversity during his successful career. Photo: Martin Rickett\/PA Pep Guardiola&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[17363,18,19,17,2353,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-19956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eamonn-sweeney","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-manchester-city","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}